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    1. When teaching complex tasks, never underestimate the power of a well done process diagram. Not only does it help you teach it, it helps learners identify where their gaps in understanding are. This is one diagram I used to use to teach high performance computing.
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  1. …in reply to @tladeras
    It ain't pretty, but it makes a process visually explicit. In this case, we're executing a script on the head node and I wanted to show how it gets farmed out to CPUs in our allocation.
    1. …in reply to @tladeras
      Concepts like for loops and scatter/gather in both cluster computing and cloud computing do very distinct things in terms of compute resources. It can be hard for learners to verbalize where they don't understand without a diagram.
      1. …in reply to @tladeras
        Anyway, another bit of hard won #scicomm knowledge. When you do a good job with a process diagram, it makes communicating about that process much easier. That is all.