WestGrid facilities are designated for Canadian researchers or those collaborating on Canadian research projects. In general, any academic researcher from a Canadian research institution with significant high performance computing requirements to support his or her research may apply for an account on WestGrid.

Please see the QuickStart Guide for New Users.

 

By Distributed Collaboration, we mean collaborating with colleagues at a distance. WestGrid provides researchers with access to a range of tools to help them work with colleagues at remote institutions, whether across town or around the world.

For security reasons, no one at WestGrid knows your password. If you are sure that you have forgotten your password, we need to relay a temporary password to you by telephone. Send an email to support@westgrid.ca to arrange telephone contact with a WestGrid analyst and we will then contact you with a new temporary password, which you use to log in to https://rsg.nic.ualberta.ca/login.php.

Through this page you will choose a new password which starts a chain of events through which a request is sent to administrators at all the WestGrid sites and a request is sent in for a new Grid Canada certificate.

You might not. With that said, if you are working with researchers at other institutions the WestGrid collaboration infrastructure might be able to help you. Our goal is to help you perform your research more effectively by helping you to communicate with remote colleagues more effectively, create more effective distribtued research groups, and helping to build new research relationships.

See the WestGrid Software section on R: 

http://westgrid.ca/support/software/R

To upload a document to the website, click on "Web File Manager" on the menu of items on the left side of the screen. You will be prompted with an AJAX style interface for organizing documents.

This is a pretty full featured AJAX application, you can drag files into folder, create new folders, etc.

To include a text file inline on a webpage, use the {INCLUDE<space>/path/to/file} syntax. Here is a sample of a file posted inline

 

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{INCLUDE files/webfm/faqs/inline_faq/sample.txt}

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This can also be given a style such as code by highlighting INCLUDE line with the WG_Code style.

 

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{INCLUDE files/webfm/faqs/inline_faq/sample.txt}

See http://drupal.westgrid.ca/website_documentation/images/adding_images_pages

To create a new Support Notice item:

1. Select 'Create Content' from the menu on the left
2. Select 'Support Notice' from the Create Content page
3. Enter an appropriate title
4. Select the System Notice category
5. Enter the information in the 'Body' section
6. When complete, select 'Preview' at the bottom of the page to see what your new posting will look like
7. Finally, when you are satisfied with your posting, select 'Submit' at the bottom of the page to submit your new Support Notice 

While you are creating/editing a page, you can select to keep the page 'Unpublished' which effectively makes it invisible to any regular anonymous user.

• To unpublish the page, uncheck the 'Published' checkbox in the Publishing Options section.

When you are done editing and would like to publish the page to allow general access, you can then recheck the Published checkbox.

To view all currently unpublished pages, click the menu item labelled 'Unpublished Pages' on the personalized menu to the left.

The website is set up to automatically create a 'URL alias' for you when you create a page - based on the menu location and title of the page. 

If your page is not being inserted into the menu system - or you are unhappy with the created url, you can manaully change the url alias.  See the  URL Conventions FAQ item for more details on the policies concerning url alias creation.