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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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Research data management tools, platforms & best practices for researchers -

Research Data Management (RDM) is becoming an essential component of the research process. This session will explore some of the top tools, important components, and best practices of effective...

Research Computing Workshops @ Simon Fraser University -

This free workshop series, hosted by Simon Fraser University (SFU) and WestGrid, will provide hands-on introductions to essential tools and skills used in computational research. Researchers in all...

Molecular visualization with VMD -

VMD is a molecular visualization program for displaying, animating, and analyzing large biomolecular systems using 3-D graphics and built-in scripting. This webinar will take a brief introductory...

WestGrid Town Hall March 2019: Managing System Instability -

Join us Friday, March 1, for our first Community Town Hall of 2019. This session will feature a special presentation on using large scale systems such as Cedar and share some best practices to help...

Using Valgrind: Free Tools for Memory Management and Debugging -

Valgrind is often used for debugging and profiling Linux programs. With Valgrind's tool suite you can automatically detect many memory management and threading bugs, avoiding hours of frustrating bug...

Text parsing and matching with HPC resources -

This talk will provide a brief introduction to some of the core concepts of analyzing text using computational tools. We will demonstrate how standard calculations can be scaled to work on very large...

Software Carpentry Workshop: Focus on Python -

Software Carpentry aims to help researchers get their work done in less time and with less pain by teaching them basic research computing skills. This hands-on workshop will cover basic concepts and...

Best practices for newbies on Graham -

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 account to...

Research Computing Winter Bootcamp @ University of Alberta -

Does your research rely on computing, or are you curious about research data management and other library-assisted research topics? Then join IST and the Libraries from January 28 to February 1 for...

Working with data objects in yt -

yt is a very easy-to-use Python library for quick visualization of 3D data volumes, with data stored on structured (uniform and multi-resolution) and unstructured meshes. In this session, we will...

WestGrid Training Events

Apr 3: Short read DNA sequencing alignment and visualization

Apr 4: Béluga - An Introduction

Apr 17: Computing graphs on an HPC cluster

Research Seminars

Apr 11: VanBUG Seminar: Anshul Kundaje (Stanford University)

May 9: VanBUG Seminar: Denise Daley (UBC/St. Paul’s)