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WestGrid Training Materials and Event Archive

Below is a list of the past training sessions WestGrid has hosted or supported.

Events with icons next to the titles indicate which sessions have archived materials (PDF slides and/or a video recordings). Click on the event title to read the full session description and access the archived materials. Use the keyword search or filters to find training materials on specific topics.

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We post all our training videos online and use our channel to share videos from the other regions and Compute Canada.
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If there is a training topic you'd like to see WestGrid deliver as a webinar or workshop, please send your suggestions to info@westgrid.ca.

View Upcoming Training Events

UManitoba - Research Computing Summer School -

This June, WestGrid is bringing its Research Computing Summer School to the University of Manitoba. Courses will explore introductory and advanced topics in: high performance computing cloud...

UBC - Research Computing Summer School -

Join WestGrid for its second annual Research Computing Summer School at the University of British Columbia. Course will explore introductory and expert topics in: high performance computing cloud...

Research Data Management Week @ UofA: Advanced Scheduling -

Carpentry and reveal the full complexity of the scheduling system. This level of details will benefit researchers and teams that are looking to maximize the amount of resources available to them on...

UofA Research Data Management Week: 3D Scientific Visualization -

Led by WestGrid visualization expert Alex Razoumov this one-day, hands-on workshop will introduce participants to ParaView, a 3D scientific visualization tool. Participants should bring their own...

HPC Carpentry @ University of Alberta -

HPC Carpentry is a new two-day workshop designed to teach how to interact with a compute cluster. The first lesson, Intro to HPC, is a general introduction to the bash command line and submitting...

Research Computing Tutorials @ UNBC: Intro to HPC, Programming & ParaView -

WestGrid is hosting a series of free workshop sessions at the University of Northern British Columbia in May 2018 that will provide hands-on introductions to high-performance computing (HPC),...

Software Carpentry @ University of Alberta -

This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and tools, including program design, version control, data management, and task automation.

Data Carpentry @ University of Alberta -

Where Software Carpentry teaches best practices in software development, Data Carpentry's focus is on the introductory computational skills needed for data management and analysis in all domains of...

Introduction to the Boost MPI Library -

The Boost MPI library provides an object-oriented interface to MPI, allowing the programmer to concentrate on the parallel architecture rather than the implementation details of packing and sending...

Job Scheduling With Slurm -

This session teaches participants how to use Compute Canada's queuing environment on the new national systems (Cedar and Graham), using the job scheduler Slurm. Learn how the scheduler works, how it...

WestGrid Training Events

Jun 25: UManitoba - Research Computing Summer School

Jul 13: WestGrid Community Town Hall July 2018

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