From dba789cbf16920ee946ae88422f9c77fead82148 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Anton Akhmerov Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 20:31:25 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 1/2] remove mention of sage cloud --- w0_background/intro.ipynb | 20 ++++---------------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) diff --git a/w0_background/intro.ipynb b/w0_background/intro.ipynb index 993325d..7490858 100644 --- a/w0_background/intro.ipynb +++ b/w0_background/intro.ipynb @@ -148,25 +148,13 @@ "cell_type": "markdown", "metadata": {}, "source": [ - "To get going with the simulations, you will need to get access to computational software.\n", - "\n", - "Don't fear, it's very easy. If you don't want to spend time installing programs, just make a free account at [Sage Cloud](https://cloud.sagemath.com). It is a free cloud computation service, so using it you can access everything that you will need for our course as long as you have a browser.\n", - "\n", - "A cool feature of Sage Cloud is that it allows you to collaboratively work on the same simulations, similar to google docs. In fact, we even encourage you to work in groups." - ] - }, - { - "cell_type": "markdown", - "metadata": {}, - "source": [ - "An alternative route is to install everything on your own computer. The advantages are that the computations will run faster, and that you will be able to use it without internet access. Of course that also means you cannot collaborate like on Sage Cloud (unless you are also using the Sage Cloud).\n", - "\n", - "If you want to install the necessary software, you will need:\n", + "To get going with the simulations, you will need to get the computational software.\n", + "Specifically you need:\n", "\n", "* Python 3.5 or 3.6\n", "* Python scientific stack (SciPy, NumPy, Matplotlib, Jupyter notebook)\n", - "* Holoviews, a Python library for plotting data.\n", - "* [Kwant](http://kwant-project.org), a package for quantum transport simulations.\n", + "* Holoviews 1.7, a Python library for plotting data.\n", + "* [Kwant](http://kwant-project.org) 1.3, a package for quantum transport simulations.\n", "\n", "The installation should be straightforward.\n", "Installation of most of the requirements is described [here](http://kwant-project.org/install).\n", -- GitLab From cd7def679f114d6e7b1f91256b334d4255b54052 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bas Nijholt Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 21:28:02 +0000 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Use stable kwant 1.3 from conda-forge --- w0_background/intro.ipynb | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/w0_background/intro.ipynb b/w0_background/intro.ipynb index 7490858..e1a8b61 100644 --- a/w0_background/intro.ipynb +++ b/w0_background/intro.ipynb @@ -180,8 +180,7 @@ " Kwant and its dependencies with:\n", "\n", " conda config --add channels conda-forge\n", - " conda config --add channels kwant # this is to get the latest kwant version\n", - " conda install kwant=dev holoviews notebook" + " conda install kwant holoviews notebook feedparser" ] }, { -- GitLab