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WestGrid Research Computing Summer School coming to University of Calgary May 27-30

May 4, 2019

WestGrid is bringing its four-day Research Computing Summer School to the University of Calgary (UofC) on May 27-30, 2019, hosted in partnership with UofC Research Computing Services and the Schulich School of Engineering. This training event is targeted at researchers interested in building their knowledge and skills in using advanced research computing resources. (Note: A basic / working knowledge of Linux command line usage is required for most courses.)

Courses will explore topics in:

  • high performance computing (HPC...
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Meet Béluga: The latest supercomputer for Canadian researchers

Beluga Calcul Quebec Compute Canada
April 26, 2019

MONTREAL, QC, April 26, 2019 – Imagine a computer 300,000 times faster than a PC, and with 67,000 times more storage space. Such is Béluga, a supercomputer now serving Québec and Canadian researchers.

Located at the École de technologie supérieure in Montreal, Béluga was first made available at the beginning of April and is now the main high performance computing (HPC) infrastructure in the province.

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Next WestGrid Community Town Hall: Thursday, May 09

April 25, 2019

Join us on Thursday, May 09 for our next Community Town Hall. Patrick Mann, WestGrid's Director of Operations, will share the latest updates from WestGrid and Compute Canada that have impacts on advanced research computing users in Western Canada. Attendees are welcome to ask questions on these and any other topics.

Our Town Halls are open to any WestGrid or Compute Canada user as well as members of the broader research and innovation community from all disciplines. Industry members are welcome too! You can join the session at any...

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Cedar outage planned for April 29

April 24, 2019

Compute Canada's Cedar system will be unavailable on April 29, starting at 6:00 am (Pacific). This outage is necessary to complete electrical work that will allow us to expand Cedar in the future. We will also be upgrading the file system and the network (Omni-Path) drivers.

Rules for job submission have changed On April 16, a new rule was implemented that prevents job submission from directories that reside within the home...

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Time to renew your Compute Canada account - Deadline: May 07, 2019

April 23, 2019

Compute Canada's annual renewal of accounts has begun and all renewals must be complete by May 07, 2019. This process is essential to collect the information required by Compute Canada's funders and to deactivate accounts that are no longer in use. 

Note: You do not need to renew if you created or re-activated an account after January 1, 2019. Only accounts created or activated prior to January 1, 2019 must be renewed at this time.

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WEBINAR May 01: How to manage many files with DAR disk archiver

WestGrid webinar May 2019 disk archiver
April 17, 2019

Join us for a one-hour webinar on Wednesday, May 01 where we'll learn more about a little-known, but incredibly useful open-source tool called `dar` that was developed as a faster, modern replacement to `tar`. This online presentation will be hosted by Alex Razoumov, Visualization and Training Coordinator with WestGrid.

Details

Learn how to manage many files with DAR disk archiver
Wednesday, May 01
10:00 - 11:00 am Pacific
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University of Alberta Research Computing Spring Bootcamp - April 29 - May 3

April 11, 2019

Does your research rely on computing, or are you curious about research data management and other library-assisted research topics? Then join University of Alberta IST and the Libraries from April 29 to May 3 for their Research Computing Spring Bootcamp!

This week-long event is designed for faculty members, students, postdoctoral fellows, and other researchers across campus. Registrants...

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WEBINAR April 17: Computing graphs on an HPC cluster

April 5, 2019

Join us for a one-hour webinar on Wednesday, April 17 where we'll walk through the process of working with distributed unstructured data in the programming language of Chapel. This online presentation will be hosted by Alex Razoumov, Visualization and Training Coordinator with WestGrid.

Details

Computing graphs on an HPC cluster:
Working with distributed unstructured data in Chapel
Wednesday, April 17
10:00 - 11:00 am Pacific
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Job Opportunity: University of Saskatchewan seeking an HPC System Administrator

April 4, 2019

In support of Research Computing in ICT, the University of Saskatchewan is seeking an Advanced Computing System Administrator to perform system administration on University of Saskatchewan and WestGrid / Compute Canada systems, including large storage systems, backup servers, tape libraries, and High Performance Computing (...

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Béluga available to all Compute Canada users on April 3, 2019

April 3, 2019

For several months, the Calcul Québec team has been working on the commissioning of a new supercomputer called Béluga, which will become available on Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019 for all Compute Canada users.

This new supercomputer is a general purpose system similar to...

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