Notice to users: The Cedar system will be unavailable July 15-16. This outage is necessary to complete upgrades to Cedar’s /home and /scratch filesystems.
During this time, users will not be able to log in or run jobs on the cluster. Any jobs in progress at the time of the outage will be stopped and users will need to re-submit them once Cedar is back online on July 17.
If you have questions regarding the upcoming downtime, please email support@computecanada....
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Over the last year, WestGrid has been adding developer expertise to its team in order to meet researchers' growing needs for specialized software and services that support their research projects.
WestGrid's developer team is led by Senior Developer Ikenna Okpala, who joined WestGrid in 2018 and has more than 12 years experience delivering projects in various sectors ranging from government to medical to e-commerce. A specialist in web development, he subscribes to agile, pair programming (where required), behaviour driven (BDD), DRY...
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WestGrid's quarterly newsletter is now available to read online. If you would like to be added to the mailing list to receive WestGrid newsletters, sign up here.
Stories this month include:
To help guide the Government of Canada in making its science more open and accessible, it is asking for feedback from users and stakeholders of open science in Canada.
Do you:
From June 24 - 27, WestGrid and the ARC Team at the University of British Columbia are hosting a Research Computing Summer School.
Due to high interest, our event quickly reached capacity -- more than 200 people are registered, which is UBC's biggest Summer School event yet! However, for those who missed out on securing an in-person spot at the event, there is another option for participating!
We have set up a...
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CANARIE, a vital component of Canada’s digital infrastructure supporting research, education and innovation, today launched an open call for applications for volunteer positions on CANARIE’s Board of Directors. Serving on the CANARIE Board is an opportunity to direct the evolution of a component of digital research infrastructure that is critical to Canada’s future in the global knowledge economy.
CANARIE is seeking two candidates: one who is currently a ...
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SHARCNET, a partner of Compute Ontario's, has some training webinars coming up that would be of interest to WestGrid users. These sessions are webcast online and don't require a SHARCNET or Compute Canada account to participate.
Click the links below for more information on how to attend.
Wednesday, June 05
9:00 - 10:00 am Pacific
Examining the Mathematical programming...
On Thursday, May 09, WestGrid hosted a Community Town Hall where our Director of Operations, Patrick Mann, shared a detailed breakdown of the 2019 Compute Canada Resource Allocation Competition results. The 2019 competitions received the highest number of requests in the RAC’s history, 507 applications, which is 8.1% more applications than 2018. Of the total recipients, 152 projects are based in Western Canada.
Other topics discussed at the WestGrid May Town Hall included:
WestGrid is seeking an experienced and highly motivated individual to take on the role of Executive Assistant. The deadline to apply is Friday, June 14.
The Executive Assistant provides administrative support to the Senior Management Team of four executives. He/she works under minimal supervision to support a distributed and diverse team, using collaboration tools such as cloud-based documents and videoconferencing technologies. Candidate will be required to travel for meetings, mostly within Western Canada.
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On Thursday, June 13, external network access to the Arbutus cloud will be interrupted for up to 30 minutes during a 1-hour network maintenance window from 8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. (PDT). During this time, virtual machines on Arbutus will continue running.
If you have questions about this temporary outage, please contact support@computecanada.ca.
Live system status updates for Arbutus and all Compute Canada national systems can be viewed at any time at: ...
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