GDPR and the Canadian Research Landscape
June 28, 2018 | 1:00 PM EST
Presented by:James McGregor, Associate Director, Strategic Projects and Services, Public Knowledge Project (PKP)
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the European Union’s new comprehensive set of regulations for the handling of personal data on the Internet by service providers, and is pertinent to anyone who manages personally identifying information of EU citizens. Any organization that gathers...
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Join us for our next Community Town Hall on Friday July 13 for the latest updates on WestGrid and Compute Canada activities and news. This session is webstreamed live online and open to any members of the research community from all disciplines and departments.
Friday, July 13
9:00 - 10:00 am
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WestGrid user and University of Victoria researcher Falk Herwig and his collaborators have used Compute Canada Niagara supercomputer to simulate life of a star. A summary of their work was recently profiled in R&D magazine.
To understand a star’s structure, researchers simulate them on a supercomputer using complex hydrodynamics calculations over a long...
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Our ‘Users in the News’ series showcases and celebrates researchers who have recently made headlines, from local papers to international newswires.
Did we miss anything? Send your news to info@westgrid.ca.
UBC prof nabs 100k prize for toddler language research
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Compute Canada’s national clusters -- Cedar, Graham and Niagara -- and the Compute Canada Cloud are available for use by researchers across Canada.
How To Access Cedar, Graham, Niagara
There are just a few days left to register for CANHEIT-TECC 2018, Canada's largest gathering of higher education IT leaders and advanced research computing (ARC) experts. Hosted by CUCCIO, SFU, and Compute Canada, the event is taking place on SFU campus on Burnaby Mountain in Vancouver June 18-21 and features panel discussions, presentations, birds of a feather discussions, poster sessions, and keynote addresses....
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Join the WestGrid team and help lead the acceleration of research innovation by deploying state-of-the-art advanced research computing (ARC) systems, storage and software solutions. WestGrid provides essential ARC services and infrastructure for Canadian researchers and their collaborators in all academic and industrial sectors.
Check out the latest career opportunities on the WestGrid Careers page or view the specific positions via the links below:
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This June, WestGrid is hosting Research Computing Summer Schools at the University of British Columbia (June 11-14) and the University of Manitoba (June 25-28). Courses will explore...
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Compute Canada has announced its 2018 Resource Allocation Competitions (RAC) results and recipients. This year's RAC received the highest number of submissions in its history with 469 projects applying for an allocation — an increase of 15% over requests made in 2017. In Western Canada, 151 projects at WestGrid member and partner institutions received RAC...
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CANARIE, a vital component of Canada’s digital infrastructure supporting research, education and innovation, today announced a call for proposals for development of software tools to support a strong research data management (RDM) ecosystem in Canada.
The call for proposals supports the development of RDM software that encourages the adoption of RDM best practices, specifically the FAIR Principles, which state that research data should be Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and...
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