Tutorial Preparation¶
In preparation for the hands-on sessions of the tutorial, please make sure you have:
If the latter two (CLI and Docker) does not work, you can consider using a CodeSpace work environment.
Verify Your Account ¶
Some features on the platform are locked behind a verification wall. You will be making use of some of these features during the hands-on sessions in the tutorial, so make sure you verify your account before the tutorial. It can take a few days to get your account verified, so do this at your earliest convenience.
Test if you are verified by opening Your Profile on Grand-Challenge.org .
You should see underneath your username.
Posix/Shell Environment 🕹️¶
During the tutorial, we will use the command-line. For that, it is handy to have a command-line interface available. Perhaps a laptop or other device. You are good to go if you are using MacOS or a Linux Desktop variant. For the Windows OS users, we recommend enabling Windows Subshell for Linux (WSL). You find instructions for enabling WSL here:
How to install Linux on Windows
Test if you have successfully installed the Windows-Subshell for Linux by searching for wsl in Windows search, click on it and in the spawned Linux Terminal run echo $0. It should report bash or some other shell such as zsh or sh.
Docker Runtime 🐳¶
Docker is a tool that packages applications and their dependencies into containers, ensuring they run consistently across different environments. This helps streamline deployment, avoid conflicts, and optimize resource use. You will be using Docker to locally build and save container images of an algorithm and evaluation method, which you then upload to Grand Challenge for use in the challenge submission pipeline.
Follow the OS specific installation instructions at the link below. If you are using Windows, we recommend you follow the Windows installation guide with WSL2 backend.
Test if you successfully installed docker by running docker run hello-world. This should first pull the image, and then display the following in your terminal, among other things:
See you at the tutorial!