Santos Dumont Super Computer

Accessing and using the SDumont infrastructure for Deep Learning research. – Aug 30, 2021

This manual details the engagement, access and usage of the Santos Dumont Super Computer. This document is profoundly based on the official support manual provided by LNCC, as well as my personal experience in the program (hence, it may not perfectly represent all cases). Its goal is to present information in a more directed manner for users that share my own profile (Deep Learning researchers that prefer the TensorFlow framework and who are familiar with Docker.

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Effective Code Versioning

Digging Deep in Code Versioning with GIT – Oct 2, 2017

Some weeks ago, I've started this blog with this very subject. Today, as requested by a reader, I'll go back and try to talk a little bit more about versioning focusing on GIT, it's problems and how to avoid/fix them.

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Code Versioning

The basics on GIT and code storage – Oct 2, 2017

Versioning is one of the most basic ideas in software development, but is treated with such contempt that lots of people only start to actually use it after too much manual effort. Someone somewhere at some point said: "the idea of a human doing a task that could be automated by a machine just makes me sad". I think this sentence sums up pretty much everything about versioning: you can develop without it, sure, but it would be just painful and, considering the formality of computers, it would just result in a worst job, most likely.

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