Are you passionate about helping researchers use high performance computing and other digital infrastructure tools? WestGrid is hiring Research Computing Training Assistant is responsible for supporting and delivering research computing training sessions across all WestGrid Member institutions online, in-person, or over multiple days. This includes working with the Training & Visualization Coordinator to identify gaps in...
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September 3, 2019
Nvidia has announced three webinars during September and early October that will showcase and discuss applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in range of research fields. The webinars are free but registration is required. Click on the links below for more information and to register online.
Details:Accelerating Quantum Chemistry Simulations with AI
Tuesday, September 17, 2019
11:00 AM PDT
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September 3, 2019
On September 19, Intel and Simon Fraser University are gathering a panel of solution specialists and experts from the Canadian Artificial Intelligence (AI) for a one-day workshop.
At this one-day session, you will learn about AI methodologies as well as AI optimization tools and techniques, that can be applied to Intel Xeon® processors as well as learn about some of Intel’s upcoming products that can be leveraged for AI.
Live demos will be followed by guided hands-on experience where you will learn how to optimize deep...
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September 1, 2019
Each fall, Compute Canada invites researchers across Canada from all disciplines to apply to its annual Resource Allocation Competitions (RAC).
If your research requires large-scale computing, cloud computing, data management, or data storage resources, WestGrid and its partners in Research Computing at the University of Manitoba invite you to attend our Compute Canada RAC...
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August 27, 2019
CANARIE, a vital component of Canada’s digital research infrastructure ecosystem supporting research, education and innovation, has announced $2M in funding to support the Canadian Association of Research Libraries’ (CARL) Portage Network. CARL Portage is a national, library-based research data management (RDM) network that fosters initiatives to build capacity and to coordinate...
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August 15, 2019
To enhance the security of its resources, Compute Canada is modifying the configuration of the SSH security protocol used to connect to its clusters. SSH protects the information transmitted between the user and the cluster, and verifies the identity of both parties. To learn more about SSH, please read the Compute Canada wiki page: https://docs.computecanada.ca/wiki/SSH
The new configuration will affect all users...
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August 10, 2019
CANARIE, a vital component of Canada’s digital research infrastructure (DRI) ecosystem supporting research, education and innovation, will receive a Government of Canada investment of $137M to support its activities from 2020 – 2024.
Announced in the penultimate year of CANARIE’s current mandate (2015-2020), this funding commitment enables the organization to seamlessly transition services and activities into its next mandate and ensures that CANARIE can continue...
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August 5, 2019
This summer, WestGrid partnered with the University of Calgary's Research Computing Services team and the University of British Columbia's Advanced Research Computing (ARC) team to host two successful Research Computing Summer Schools. Both events were at capacity, selling out their spots within weeks of registration opening.
Combined, the two schools hosted nearly 400 attendees, and delivered hands-on training across a range of introductory and advanced research computing topics. The UBC School event livestreamed some of its...
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July 31, 2019
WestGrid's quarterly newsletter is now available to read online. If you would like to be added to the mailing list to receive WestGrid newsletters, sign up here.
Stories this month include:
- A welcome to Ahmad Bisher, WestGrid's new Director, Strategy and...
July 30, 2019
Over the last year, WestGrid has been adding developer expertise to its team in order to meet researchers' growing needs for specialized software and services that support their research projects.
WestGrid's developer team is led by Senior Developer Ikenna Okpala, who joined WestGrid in 2018 and has more than 12 years experience delivering projects in various sectors ranging from government to medical to e-commerce. A specialist in web development, he subscribes to agile, pair programming (where required), behaviour driven (BDD), DRY...
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