Join WestGrid for our FIRST Community Town Hall session of 2018 on Friday March 23 for the latest updates including RAC 2018 results and WestGrid legacy system migrations.
WestGrid's team will share the latest updates on:
TORONTO, ON (March 5, 2018) – Canada’s most powerful research supercomputer, Niagara, is now available to researchers of all disciplines across the country. Located at the University of Toronto and supported by the university’s high-performance computing division SciNet the system is open to all Canadian university researchers. Niagara is part of a system of national advanced research computing infrastructure, which includes Cedar at Simon Fraser University, Arbutus at...
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Compute Canada is offering five scholarships to the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) 2018. These will be awarded via a competition closing March 8, 2018. Submissions must include:
Join us on February 28 for speaker Alex Razoumov's session on Using Chapel for Parallel Programming.
Wednesday, Feb 28
10:00 am - 12:00 pm Pacific
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The University of Toronto’s high-performance computing unit SciNet is offering 10 expenses-paid scholarships to Canadian graduate students and postdoctoral scholars for the ninth International Summer School on High-Performance Computing (HPC) Challenges in Computational Sciences, to be held July 8 to 13, 2018, in Ostrava, in the Czech Republic. This summer school is hosted by the IT4Innovations National Supercomputing Centre.
Applications are due Feb 13...
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CANHEIT-TECC 2018 welcomes all higher education IT leaders from universities, colleges, technical institutes, and research computing (ARC) experts to attend. WestGrid is a partner in this event, which is being hosted by SFU, Compute Canada, and CUCCIO.
Conference registration includes:
WestGrid and Compute Canada are supporting an innovative new program by the University of Calgary and Calgary Laboratory Services (CLS) to develop a new strategy to combat infections. The program, called Precision Infection Management (PIM), has been called an “immense undertaking” by its founders and requires a massive computer database, ResistanceDB, which will be hosted on Compute Canada's national platform.
On a regional level, WestGrid is contributing specialized technical expertise — from database architects to senior...
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To further build a cohesive Canadian community of research software developers and to strengthen the impact of public funds for research, CANARIE is hosting the first annual Canadian Research Software Conference on May 29 - 30, 2018 in Ottawa, ON.
Who should attend?You could be an active developer of research software (regardless of your job title), a computational researcher, a student, a developer of open source software to support research, or a researcher with an interest in software development.
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Compute Canada is pleased to announce the appointment of Robbin Tourangeau as Interim President & CEO. She will begin her one-year appointment on February 5, 2018.
Ms. Tourangeau recently served as the Founding Executive Director of the Leadership Council on Digital Research Infrastructure (LCDRI), and brings a high level of knowledge and a broad national network in areas relevant to her new leadership role at Compute Canada. She also has a strong track record of strategic public policy development, advocacy...
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Wed, 31 January 2018
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PST
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