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...

Three HPC job opportunities have deadlines fast approaching at the end of this month. For more information, click the links below to read the full postings and apply online. 

University of British Columbia - Advanced Research Computing (ARC)
Systems Administrator II, ARC
Deadline to apply: July 28
The Systems Administrator II, ARC designs and implements digital research infrastructure (DRI) systems hardware and software solutions, defines systems scope, and provides...

To help guide the Government of Canada in making its science more open and accessible, it is asking for feedback from users and stakeholders of open science in Canada.

Do you:

• Use, or wish to use, data generated by government scientists?
• Need to access scientific articles published by government scientists?
• Wish to see government science in a format that is easier to understand?
• Work with government scientists to advance projects?
• Use government science to communicate to the public?...

CANARIE, a vital component of Canada’s digital infrastructure supporting research, education and innovation, today launched an open call for applications for volunteer positions on CANARIE’s Board of Directors. Serving on the CANARIE Board is an opportunity to direct the evolution of a component of digital research infrastructure that is critical to Canada’s future in the global knowledge economy.

CANARIE is seeking two candidates: one who is currently a ...