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Throughout the year, WestGrid hosts talks and tutorials on how to use advanced research computing resources to support your research. Sessions range in length and can be delivered in person or as online webinars. Please check the individual event listings below to confirm these details.

If there is a topic you'd like to see added to our program, please send your suggestions to info@westgrid.ca.

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Tools for Handling Big Data & Computing Demands in Humanities & Social Science Research -
Scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences are using increasingly complex computational tools, methods, and techniques in their research. There are three elements of the current landscape that...
Training Neural Networks with Hundreds of GPUs on Graham and Cedar -
Session Topic: This webinar is presented by SHARCNET, an HPC consortium that is part of Compute Ontario, one of four regional partners of Compute Canada. You do not need a SHARCNET or Compute Canada...
Supercomputing in Canada: An Intro to Compute Canada & WestGrid -
Does your research need large-scale computing, data management, or storage? Join us for an introduction to Compute Canada and WestGrid. This talk will provide an overview of some of the expertise,...
Partitions and Scheduling: Running Jobs Effectively on Graham and Cedar -
Session Topic: Having problems getting your jobs to run on Compute Canada's national systems, Cedar and Graham? Waiting in the queue a long time? Did you know that there are often idle nodes on these...
Packaging with Nix -
The Nix package manager allows users to install a variety of common packages in their own environment and is a great way to get access to otherwise unavailable and/or newer versions of many utilities...
WestGrid Research Computing Summer School - UofS -
This July, WestGrid is bringing its new Research Computing Summer School series to the University of Saskatchewan. Courses will explore introductory and advanced topics in: High performance computing...
How Jobs are Scheduled to Run on Graham & Cedar -
Canadian research teams have massive workloads to accomplish on Compute Canada's newest national general purpose systems - Cedar and Graham. The scheduler is the part of the system that accepts...
Cedar Office Hours & July Town Hall -
Join WestGrid Support Staff for a live introduction to Cedar, one of Compute Canada's newest and most powerful supercomputers. In this special 'Office Hours' session, WestGrid Support Staff will show...
Introduction to Bioinformatics -
The rapid growth of sequencing technology has allowed the scope of biological research to expand from the study of one or two specific genes to the parallel querying of entire genomes, transcriptomes...
WestGrid Research Computing Summer School - UBC -
This summer, WestGrid is launching its first Research Computing Summer School series. Its inaugural school will be held at the University of British Columbia and the courses will explore introductory...

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