SMACK 14: Make, a powerful tool to manage your projects
Did you ever want to re-run your project from the beginning, but run into trouble because you forgot one step? Do you want to run just one part of your project...
SMACK 15: Programming parallel workloads with PyCOMPSs in La Palma
PyCOMPSs is a task-based programming in Python that enables simple sequential codes to be executed in parallel in distributed computing platforms. It is based...
LaTeX is a professional typesetting system to create a ready-to-print or publish (usually PDF!) document (usually papers!). LaTeX is the format used by arXiv...
In the 16th SMACK, the very basics of LaTeX were introduced; showing how to make a basic document from scratch, set the printable size, inserting images and...
The first part of this talk will present an overview of the tool "module" and its main commands and flags. "module" provides the dynamic modification of the...
SMACK 19: "Introducing the new 133-Mpixel visualization wall of the IAC"
In a time when we deal with extremely large images (be it from computer simulations or from extremely powerful telescopes), visualizing them can become a...
SMACK 1: History of the Unix-like operating systems and introduction to the command-line
Short Meetings on Astro Computing Knowledge (SMACK) are a series of talks, or more appropriately 'live demonstrations', presented in the Instituto de...
SMACK 2: POSIX power tools: Command-line tools and shell scripting
The shell (or command-line) is the most commonly used (for advanced operations) interface to Unix-like operating systems. In this session we'll introduce some...
Gnuastro is an official GNU package that is currently maintained at the IAC. It is a large collection of programs to enable easy, robust, fast and efficient...