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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.

WestGrid Training Materials

Missed a training session or want to review the materials a second or third time? You can view archived training videos and past training session materials in the following places:

  • Training Materials portal - archived videos on select topics, getting started guides, domain-specific training, programming training, summer schools information, etc.
  • WestGrid YouTube channel - complete archive of all WestGrid training videos as well as links to other region & Compute Canada training videos

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.

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Mining Twitter data for research: Part 2 -
This webinar builds on concepts introduced in an earlier session that explored the sandbox options of Twitter's APIs. (To watch a recording of that earlier introductory session, click here.)  
WestGrid Research Computing Summer School 2020 (Online) -
This year, WestGrid is moving its Research Computing Summer School online. Courses include the following topics: Bash command line Introduction to High Performance Computing (HPC) Introduction to...
Machine learning in Julia with Flux -
This webinar, aimed at users with no experience in machine learning, is an introduction to the basic concepts of neural networks, followed by a simple example — the classic classification of the...
Web-based 3D scientific visualization -
In this webinar we will talk about putting your 3D visualization in a web browser. This lets you give anyone with a browser the ability to play with your 3D dataset, create much simpler interfaces...
Building software on Compute Canada clusters using EasyBuild -
EasyBuild is a software build and installation framework that allows you to manage (scientific) software on High Performance Computing (HPC) systems in an efficient way. This webinar will look at...
WestGrid Training @ UBC Research Commons -- Introduction to High Performance Computing (HPC) - online -
This free hands-on online session is part of a series of advanced computing workshops WestGrid is delivering at the University of British Columbia (UBC), in partnership with the UBC Research Commons...
Scientific graphing with GNUPlot -
Gnuplot is a portable command-line driven graphing utility for Linux, MS Windows, MacOS and many other platforms. In this webinar, we will see how it can be used to plot functions and data, how to...
Working with data files and external C libraries in Chapel -
Chapel is high-level parallel programming language for shared- and distributed-memory systems. For the past three years, we have been using Chapel to teach basic concepts of parallel programming to...
WestGrid Training @ UBC Research Commons -- Advanced Github -
This free hands-on session is part of a series of advanced computing workshops WestGrid is delivering at the University of British Columbia (UBC), in partnership with the UBC Research Commons.     
High-performance research computing with Julia -
Julia is fast: just-in-time (JIT) compilation and multiple dispatch bring efficiency to interactivity. People often say that using Julia feels like running R or python with a speed almost comparable...

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