Year-round, WestGrid offers training in a variety of Advanced Research Computing (ARC) areas -- from introductory sessions to more advanced and specialized topics. We took a break over the summer months, but our online training is back for Fall 2017 with a series of sessions exploring tools and methods for supporting your research with ARC!
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The VanBUG (Vancouver Bioinformatics Users Group) Seminar Series returns this fall with its first session hosting guest speaker Max Libbrecht, an Assistant Professor with the School of Computing Science at Simon Fraser University.
Thursday, Sept 21, 2017
6:00 pm PDT / 7:00 pm MDT / 7:00 pm CST / 8:00 pm CDT
Webcast Link:
http://vidyoreplay....
Women in HPC (WHPC), a partner of Compute Canada's, is hosting a workshop at Supercomputing 2017 and is inviting submissions from women in industry and academia to present their work as a virtual poster. The deadline for submissions has been extended to Sunday, August 27.
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The BCNet DNS server had a disk failure August 22, 2017. This was fixed within a couple of hours but it seems that some providers have long update times. In particular Shaw has taken about 24 hours for DNS updates to take effect.
Users may have received messages about unable to find any ".westgrid.ca" servers. If you are still unable to connect please wait for a few hours and try again.
BCNet rebuilt the DNS late August 22 so the Master DNS is now working. However the changes will take time to percolate through the internet....
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On August 31, 2017, the Breezy and Lattice systems at the University of Calgary will be defunded. This means they will no longer be operated by WestGrid and will be managed by the University of Calgary directly.
System Use & Access After August 31
As part of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) 10th Plenary Collocation Event in Montreal, QC, Portage is hosting a day of activities on September 18 dedicated to a Canadian community of practice for research data management (RDM).
The day will begin with a morning plenary session that will open with a keynote address providing an account of RDM in Canada today and its future directions. Following the...
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There are less than two weeks left to submit nominations for the 2017 HPCwire Readers' Choice Awards! These annual awards are a way for global HPC community to recognize its best and brightest innovators. Now is the time to nominate your picks for the greatest achievements in HPC this year, so don't wait!
The 2017 categories include:
SciNet, a Compute Ontario consoria led by the University of Toronto, is seeking two new technical staff to join its HPC team.
SciNet's supercomputing facilities power work from the biomedical sciences and aerospace engineering to astrophysics and climate science and it is funded by CFI, NSERC, the Ontario Government, Fed Dev Ontario, and the University of Toronto.
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On July 12, 2017, WestGrid hosted an online introduction to Cedar, one of Compute Canada's newest and most powerful supercomputers. In this special 'Office Hours' session, WestGrid Support Staff showed how to login, explore the file systems, submit jobs, and other basic tasks. The session also included a short Town Hall where Patrick Mann, Director of Operations, shared the latest updates on:
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Interested in using Compute Canada's newest supercomputers, Graham and Cedar, but unsure how to use a scheduler to submit your jobs? This introductory webinar will walk through the basics of how a scheduler works and explain how Graham and Cedar's Slurm scheduler determines how jobs are dispatched within their systems.
Session DetailsWednesday, July 19
9:00 - 10:00 am Pacifc // 12:00 - 1:00 pm Eastern
Online Webinar
Canadian research teams have...
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