Starting January 11, 2019, the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) will be holding town hall meetings across Canada to get feedback on the questions posed in its discussion paper, 'Conversation on the future of Research and Research Infrastructure in Canada: role of the Canada Foundation for Innovation'.
The paper discusses subjects of convergence; international collaboration...
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WestGrid and the University of Saskatchewan (USask) are co-hosting a series of free Research Computing Workshops on the USask campus during January 15-18, 2019. Researchers in all disciplines are invited to participate (you don't need to be based at the USask). No prior experience is required for any of the topics being covered.
You can attend single sessions or the entire series. There is no cost to attend but you must register online in advance.
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WestGrid is pleased to announce the winners of the 2018 Visualize This! Challenge. First place was awarded to Philippe Nazair, a Data Visualization Developer at Université du Québec à Rimouski and part of the MERIDIAN consortium.
A video of his entry is embedded below, or you can click here to watch it directly on Vimeo.
Second prize was...
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Investment helps establish Artificial Intelligence-Supercomputing facility in EdmontonWestern Economic Diversification Canada - November 15, 2018
The University of Alberta, a WestGrid member instituation, has received $5.2 million funding from Government of Canada to...
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CANARIE has announced the nine successful recipients of its Research Data Management (RDM) funding call, announced in May 2018. This new funding will enable research teams to develop software components and tools to enable Canadian researchers to adopt best practices in managing data resulting from scientific research.
“Canada produces some of the world’s best science. To stay competitive, our researchers need access to advanced computing and big data resources. Thanks to CANARIE...
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WestGrid would like to share an early holiday gift on Tuesday, December 18, with our final Community Town Hall of 2018.
This session will feature a special presentation from Compute Canada's Director of Information Security, Jonathan Ferland, with the most recent cyber security statistics in Canada, and a summary of the Government of Canada's Top 10 Security Practices and how they apply to your research data.
Patrick Mann, WestGrid's Director of Operations will also share the latest updates affecting advanced...
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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.
DatasetsThis year the Visualize This! Challenge is comprised of two separate competitions:
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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...
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The Canadian Society for Digital Humanities (http://csdh-schn.org/) invites scholars, practitioners, and graduate students to submit proposals for papers, panels, and digital demonstrations for its annual meeting, which will be held at the 2019 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of British Columbia, from June 2-4 (https://www.congress2019.ca/).
Proposals for papers (20 min.), digital demonstrations, and panels (2-6 speakers for a 90-minute session) will be accepted until 17 December 2018 and...
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