Thank you to the more than 260 respondents who took the time to complete our third annual WestGrid User Survey last November. The purpose was to gather feedback on user and stakeholder satisfaction and to get a better understanding of your current and future research computing needs.
We’re happy to share a snapshot of this years results in our 2018 User Survey Infographic.
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Cedar will be unavailable March 1 for required system software updates. Jobs with run times that would extend into March 1 will not be started prior to the outage, and any jobs still running by March 1 will be terminated.
The system is planned to be back online by the end of the day, March 1, however, data on the /project filesystem will not be available until after March 4 in order to expand the /project filesystem. Therefore, researchers who want to run jobs on Cedar between March 2-4 must copy...
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Join us for a one-hour webinar on Wednesday, February 20 for brief introduction to Valgrind, a system for debugging and profiling Linux programs. This online presentation is being hosted by Tyson Whitehead, an HPC Consultant with SHARCNET / University of Western Ontario.
DetailsMemory debugging with Valgrind
Wednesday, February 20
10:00 - 11:00 am Pacific
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Join us for a one-hour webinar on Wednesday, February 06 for brief introduction to some of the core concepts of analyzing text using computational tools.
We will use examples from social science research where multiple data sets refer to the same individuals and they need to be merged while accounting for deviations in how individuals are named or described.
This online presentation will be hosted by Ian Percel, a data scientist at the University of Calgary.
DetailsText parsing & matching...
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The CANHEIT-ARC 2019 conference, Canada’s premier conference for higher education IT leaders and advanced research computing (ARC) experts, is seeking session proposals in a range of topics in research and higher ed trends and technologies.
The event is co-hosted this year by Compute Canada, CUCCIO, the University of Manitoba, The University of Winnipeg, Brandon University, and St. Boniface University. WestGrid is also a partner.
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On Tuesday, December 18, WestGrid hosted a Community Town Hall with a special presentation from Jonathan Ferland, Compute Canada's Director of Information Security. He shared a summary of the Government of Canada's Top 10 Security Practices and how they apply to research data.
Other topics discussed at the Town Hall included:
WestGrid runs training activities year-round, ranging from online webinars to in-person workshops and summer schools. Mark your calendars for the upcoming training activities we've confirmed so far for 2019 and join our mailing list for updates about new training sessions added to our program!
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Join us for a one-hour webinar on Wednesday, January 23 that looks at using yt for data analysis and manipulation.
yt is an open-source Python package and can be used to create isosurfaces and streamlines, as well as export 3D scenes to interactive viewers such as ParaView and MeshLab, and subset data in many different ways.
This online presentation will be hosted by Alex Razoumov, WestGrid's Training and Visualization Coordinator.
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Does your research rely on computing, or are you curious about research data management and other library-assisted research topics? Then join the University of Alberta Information Services & Technology (IST) and Libraries teams from January 28 to February 1 for their Research Computing Winter Bootcamp!
This week-long event is designed for faculty members...
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Compute Canada's Annual Report for 2017-18 is now available to read online. In addition to sharing a recap of the milestones achieved over the last 12 months, the report also presents a 'by the numbers' look at who uses Compute Canada, the research impacts and research excellence that is supported, and highlights from Compute Canada's regional partners -- WestGrid, Compute Ontario,...
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