slasnista/tpt

Welcom to TPT. This is a list of things you should know it exists.

Welcome to Telecom ParisTech

This is a list of things you should know it exists.

Please edit this page if you have useful links or scripts to share.

TPT administration

• Eole: TPT intranet (in french)
  • You can book a meeting room, find paperwork for travelling to conferences, ...
• Zimbra: TPT webmail
• Min&Tel: another TPT intranet (in french)
  • This is where you can declare your holidays.
• TPT: TPT public website
  • You can find some informations about accomodation, healthcare, cost of living, ...
• IDS: IDS department intranet (in french)

TPT account

• Your account: Some information about your TPT account (in french)
• DSI: Many information about the services of the DSI (the IT department) (in french)
• SOS: You can ask any question to the DSI about your account, your desktop, the wifi, ...
• Personal website: The DSI can host your personal website at https://perso.telecom-paristech.fr/your_login. Activate it from your account, and store the files in ~/public_html.
  • GitHub can also host your personal website at https://your_github_login.github.io/
• Home: Your home directory is accessible from most machines in TPT, but its size is limited to ~8 Gbytes
• More space: You can ask the DSI for more space on your local desktop, or on a shared directory in /tsi/doctorants/your_login
• Wifi connection: To setup wifi in TPT (in french)
  • You can also use your email address ([email protected]) and your TPT password to connect to the eduroam wifi, available in most french universities.

TPT ssh and clusters

• SSH:
  • To access TPT by SSH from outside TPT, use ssh [email protected]; you are now inside.
  • To access a specific machine, e.g. lame10, use ssh your_login@lame10. Note that you need to be inside TPT.
  • To do both step in one, you can easily redirect your ssh (Linux).
• Infres cluster: A list of powerful machines you can access by ssh, without any queuing system.
  • lame10-16: You have your home folder unchanged, so it's very easy to use.
  • lame17-19: You need to install what you need, your home is not accessible.
  • lame20-22: You can book these machines on this wesite.
  • If you need the gpu, or if you need help with these machines, ask [email protected]
• IDS cluster: A cluster you can access by ssh, but you need to use the queue.
  • Please read the doc before using it ! (in french)

Working tools

• Git: Must-have version control tool
  • Tutorial, Cheat-sheet, Development workflow
• GitHub: Host your git repositories online.
  • As a student/academic, you can ask for a free developer plan, to have unlimited private repos.
  • Alternatively, you can use GitLab, hosted by TPT (you need to raise a sos ticket to create a project)
• Linux commands: Selection of notes and tips on using the command-line.
  • Shell command explained
• oh-my-zsh: Customize your shell to have colors, current git branch, current environnement, ...

Python tools

• Anaconda: A good way to have everything you need for python
  • Miniconda: To have the conda package manager, but not all the default packages of Anaconda
• Windows binaries: Packages compiled for Windows (unofficial).
• Scientific basic packages: ipython, numpy, scipy, pandas, jupyter, matplotlib
  • Cheat-sheet, Scipy lectures, Numpy for Matlab users
• Editing tools: pep8, flake8, yapf
• Profiling: snakeviz, line-profiler, memory-profiler
• Editors: sublime_text/atom, spyder/pycharm (Matlab style)
• Awesomeness: list of links

Matlab

• Please edit this page if you have useful links to share, or tips to use Matlab in TPT.

Research tools

• Sci-Hub: Free access to most scientific papers
• Libgen: Free access to most scientific books

LaTeX tools

• Detexify: Find the LaTeX command for a rare symbol, from drawing
• Table generator: Online tool to build tables in LaTeX