Two hardware bugs, Spectre and Meltdown, have been identified as the sources of security vulnerabilities in the processor chips of computers, laptops and smart devices like tablets and mobile phones.
At this time, there are no known exploits impacting WestGrid or Compute Canada systems or users. WestGrid and Compute Canada system teams are working on patching all...
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Compute Canada is offering two pairs of scholarships to Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) 2018. These will be awarded via a competition closing February 8, 2018. Submissions must include:
On January 24, WestGrid's Training and Visualization Coordinator, Alex Razoumov, will host a free workshop at the University of British Columbia Okanagan that explores how to visualize large datasets on remote high-performance computing (HPC) clusters.
Wednesday, January 24
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
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On June 18 - 21, 2018, Compute Canada, CUCCIO and Simon Fraser University will co-host CANHEIT-TECC 2018, Canada’s premier conference for higher education IT leaders and advanced research computing (ARC) experts.
WestGrid is a supporting partner and we encourage you to join the discussion on the latest best practices, opportunities and challenges within the realm of higher education technology in support of research.
The CANHEIT-TECC 2018...
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On December 15, 2017, WestGrid hosted an online Community Town Hall to share the latest updates on legacy system migration updates and other WestGrid news.
Discussion topics included:
WestGrid's newsletter for the month of December 2017 is now available to read online. Stories this month include:
WestGrid is pleased to announce the winners of the 2017 Visualize This! Challenge. First place was awarded to Jarno van der Kolk, a postdoctoral researcher from the University of Ottawa Physics Department; second place went to Nadya Moiseeeva, a PhD student in the Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at the University of British Columbia; and third place went to Thangam Natarajan, Dan MacDonald, Richard Windeyer, Peter Coppin, and David Steinman, a joint team from the Biomedical Simulation Laboratory of the...
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“Defunded” means that the system is no longer funded, operated or maintained as part of Compute Canada’s national cyberinfrastructure platform, which is funded through the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s (CFI) Major Science Initiatives (MSI) program. Local institutions may choose to keep a system running, which may result in usage limited to a certain group of users (e.g. only those from the local institution).
"Decommissioned" means the...
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Want to build cyberinfrastructure services and platforms that will accelerate scientific research? Compute Canada is seeking full-time developers to join its team.
A key platform that will benefit from this work will be the CANFAR astronomy platform, and the tools developed will be applicable to other scientific platforms and portals.
The developers will work closely with...
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Join Richard Corbett from Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre for a one-hour webinar session on using FFPE samples in a next generation sequencing (NGS) study.
Wednesday, Dec 06
10:00 - 11:00 am Pacific
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As access to fresh tissue becomes increasingly difficult,...
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