Final submissions for the Visualize This! Challenge are due no later than Friday, November 30 at 11:59 pm Pacific. Hosted by WestGrid and the Compute Canada Visualization Team, Visualize This! is a Canada-wide competition that celebrates the innovative ways visualization can help researchers explore datasets and answer important scientific questions.

This year the Visualize This! Challenge is comprised of two separate competitions:

• a scientific visualization challenge...

On Friday, Nov 2, WestGrid had a Community Town Hall for a special presentation on Compute Canada's 2019 Resource Allocation Competitions (RAC)*. WestGrid's Director of Operations and Lead of the RAC Technical Review, Patrick Mann, shared the latest RAC updates, submission best practices, and advice for increasing the likelihood of a successful submission.

If you were unable to attend this session, you can...

WestGrid is asking all advanced research computing (ARC) users, past, present and future to tell us what resources, services and support are most needed to better enable researchers in Canada, today and tomorrow. 

The primary purpose of the survey is to help guide WestGrid's strategic planning and redevelopment, which will be happening over the next 6-12 months. Our main goal moving forward is to enhance our support and services to advance research...

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.

folio - October 25, 2018

WestGrid user Irene Cheng from the University of Alberta was featured in...