Join us for a one-hour webinar on Wednesday, April 14 that will take a closer look at the features and functionality of fastai. This online presentation will be hosted by Marie-Hélène Burle, WestGrid's Research Computing Training Assistant.
DetailsUsing Singularity containers in virtual machines & HPC
Wednesday, May 26
10:00 - 11:00 am Pacific
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Join us for a one-hour webinar on Wednesday, March 31 for a webinar that takes a closer look at using a Slurm cluster to schedule your jobs on a High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster. This online presentation will be hosted by Kamil Marcinkowski from the University of Alberta.
DetailsExploring the state of a Slurm cluster
Wednesday, March 31
10:00 - 11:00 am Pacific
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Building on four successful years hosting a national Visualize This! Challenge, the Compute Canada Visualization Working Group is joining forces with IEEE to co-host the 2021 IEEE SciVis Contest, an international competition to create novel approaches and state-of-the-art visualizations that help domain scientists better understand challenging datasets.
2021 Theme and Contest TasksThe theme and focus for the 2021 Contest is "Convection processes in the Earth’s mantle". ...
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Join us for a one-hour webinar on Wednesday, March 17 for a webinar that explores parallel programming in Julia. This online presentation will be hosted by Alex Razoumov, WestGrid's Visualization and Training Coordinator, and Marie-Hélène Burle, WestGrid's Research Computing Training Assistant.
DetailsParallel programming in Julia
Wednesday, March 17
10:00 - 11:00 am Pacific
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The New Digital Research Infrastructure Organization (NDRIO) is expanding its team, with six new positions currently available in operations, communications, IT, procurement and more.
If you would like to help NDRIO advance and invest in national DRI activities that will allow Canada's researchers to achieve scientific breakthrough and research excellence, you are encouraged to apply for one of the available roles listed below:
Join us for a one-hour webinar on Wednesday, March 03 for an introduction to the Throughput Project from one of its core developers. This online presentation will be hosted by Simon Goring, an Assistant Scientist with the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of British Columbia.
DetailsLinking databases to code repositories with...
Read more...The New Digital Research Infrastructure Organization (NDRIO) has launched a nation-wide survey, as part of its Canadian Digital Research Infrastructure Needs Assessment. This survey is open to all Canadian researchers, regardless of their current use of digital infrastructure. Please take the time to complete the survey and share it with other...
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On Friday, Feb 5, WestGrid hosted a Community Town Hall with three guest speakers discussing some of the AI expertise and machine learning innovations across Western Canada.
... Read more...Building on four successful years hosting a national Visualize This! Challenge, the Compute Canada Visualization Working Group is joining forces with IEEE to co-host the 2021 IEEE SciVis Contest, an international competition to create novel approaches and state-of-the-art visualizations that help domain scientists better understand challenging datasets.
2021 Theme and Contest TasksThe theme and focus for the 2021 Contest is "Convection processes in the Earth’s mantle". ...
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Join us for a one-hour webinar on Wednesday, February 17 for a look at two multi-platform, open-source backup tools. This online presentation will be hosted by Alex Razoumov, WestGrid's Training and Visualization Coordinator.
DetailsAutomating your backups in Linux and MacOS
Wednesday, February 17
10:00 - 11:00 am Pacific
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