WestGrid's Fall webinar series is back, offering online tutorials on a variety of topics in advanced research computing (ARC), from introductory sessions to more advanced and specialized topics. University faculty, grad students, and staff from all disciplines are invited to attend these sessions!

Click on the 'More Information' links for individual session details or visit our WestGrid Training Materials site for archives from last year. 

If you have any questions, or would like to make a suggestion for a training topic to be covered, please contact us.

• Batch visualization on Compute Canada clusters
  Wednesday, September 18 
  10:00 - 11:00 am PDT 
  Batch visualization allows you to automate tasks, write and publish your visualization as a reproducible workflow, and perform large-scale visualizations via regular jobs on cluster compute nodes. In this webinar we will review some of the serial batch visualization workflows you can run on Compute Canada HPC clusters.
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• Working with the Python DASK library
  Wednesday, October 16  
  10:00 - 11:00 am PDT
  Tips for using Python’s DASK library for data analytics and general programming.
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• File access control approaches and best practices
  Wednesday, October 30
  10:00 am - 11:00 pm PDT
  Tips and best practice suggestions for managing file access control. 
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• Building a bioinformatics QC pipeline 
  Wednesday, November 16
  10:00 - 11:00 am PST
  How to use a bioinformatics QC pipeline to manage sequencing experiment datasets.
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• Tips & tools for mining Twitter data for research 
  Wednesday, November 27
  10:00 - 11:00 am PST
  Step-by-step tutorial for using Twitter’s API interface to mine data.
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• Geospatial analysis with high performance computing (HPC)
  Wednesday, December 11
  10:00 - 11:00 am PST
  Basic tools & approaches used for geospatial data analysis on HPC clusters.
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