The New Digital Research Infrastructure Organization (NDRIO) officially launched on March 11, 2020 with its first members’ meeting and the election of its inaugural Board of Directors. This new, national not-for-profit organization will support a collaborative and agile digital research infrastructure community across Canada.

NDRIO will provide the digital tools, services and infrastructure that scholars and scientists need to conduct the kind of leading-edge research...

The Cedar supercomputer will be offline and unavailable during March 16-22, 2020 as part of a major system expansion and upgrade. During this week-long downtime, the Cedar team will be adding 768 compute nodes (36864 cores) and 192 GPU nodes (768 GPU cards), as well as:

• upgrading BIOS and firmware of compute nodes and network switches
• upgrading the operating system
• upgrading the file system software and storage controller firmware
• upgrading the network drivers
• modifying the...

Do you have an interesting project that could provide value to a research community but needs some technical expertise to implement? We want to work with you!

We have developer expertise to share with the research community and we’re looking specifically to support scientific gateways (also known as research platforms or portals).

Example potential project outcomes include (but are not limited to):

• providing web-enabled access to large databases
• providing links or access channels to HPC...

Join us for a one-hour webinar on Wednesday March 04 where we'll look at high performance research computing using Julia, a high-level, high-performance, dynamic programming language. This online presentation will be hosted by Marie-Hélène Burle, WestGrid's Research Computing Training Assistant.

High performance research computing with Julia
Wednesday, March 04
10:00 - 11:00 am Pacific
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