Join us on Friday 31 January for our first WestGrid Community Town Hall of 2020. Patrick Mann, WestGrid's Director of Operations, will share the latest updates from WestGrid and Compute Canada that have impacts on advanced research computing users in Western Canada, including:
Join us for a one-hour webinar on Wednesday February 05 where we'll look at working with Singularity on Compute Canada clusters. This online presentation will be hosted by Grigory Shamov Razoumov, WestGrid's Technical Site Lead at the University of Manitoba.
DetailsUsing Singularity for containerization on Compute Canada - Beyond the basics
Wednesday, February 05
10:00 - 11:00 am Pacific
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This week, VanBUG (the Vancouver Bioinformatics Users Group) is hosting guest speaker Dr. Raymond Ng for its monthly seminar series. Raymond is the Director of the UBC Data Science Institute, and the Canada Research Chair on data science and analytics.
DetailsDeep learning for Biomedical and Bioinformatics Research
Thursday, January 23
6:00 pm Pacific...
WestGrid is asking all members of its community -- inclusing advanced research computing (ARC) users, past, present and future -- to tell us what resources, services and support are most needed to better enable research in Canada, today and tomorrow. The deadline to share your feedback is Friday, January 31, 2020.
Click here to take the survey(It should take no more than 5-6 minutes to complete.)
... Read more...Like all Canadians, we were shocked and heartbroken to hear the fate of Ukraine International Airlines PS752, killing all 176 people on board. Sixty-three of the victims were Canadian citizens. Among them were Compute Canada users, four with connections to the University of Alberta and two to Concordia University.
These members of the Canadian academic community included professors and students. Some were well-established researchers. Others were just beginning to realize their full potential. All were gifted people whose lives and...
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Join us for a one-hour webinar on Wednesday January 15 where we'll look at working with realistic surfaces and materials in ParaView with the OSPRay Path Tracer renderer. This online presentation will be hosted by Alex Razoumov, WestGrid's Visualization & Training Coordinator.
DetailsPhotorealistic rendering with ParaView and OSPRay
Wednesday, January 15
10:00 - 11:00 am Pacific
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A free workshop series is coming to Simon Fraser University (SFU) in March, co-hosted by SFU WestGrid. The sessions will provide hands-on introductions to essential tools and skills used in computational research.
There is no cost to attend but you must register online in advance.
Researchers in all disciplines are invited to participate. No...
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WestGrid runs training activities year-round, ranging from online webinars to in-person workshops and summer schools. Mark your calendars for the upcoming training activities we've confirmed for 2020 so far, and join our mailing list for updates as new training sessions are added to our program.
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On Sunday, January 12 between 6 am - 12 pm (PST) / 9 am - 3 pm (EST), the Arbutus/UVic network supplier BCNET will perform hardware and software upgrades on equipment that supplies external connectivity to Arbutus. Maintenance work is expected to require 20 minutes during which time instances will continue running but there will be no access from outside the Arbutus internal network.
Reminder:
There will also be scheduled Arbutus network maintenance on January 8. As part of the January...
Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from all academic institutions in Canada are invited to apply for the International Summer School on High-Performance Computing Challenges in Computational Sciences, to be held July 12 to 17, 2020 at the University of Toronto, Canada. Applications are due January 27, 2020.
This expenses-paid program will familiarize the best students in computational sciences with major state-of-the-art aspects of HPC and Big Data Analytics for a variety of scientific disciplines, catalyze...
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