WestGrid is pleased to announce that Jill Kowalchuk has accepted the position of Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) with WestGrid, effective March 1, 2008.
This follows the retirement of Ken Hewitt, who was WestGrid’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the past five years. Ken will continue to work with WestGrid on a part-time basis, assisting Jill in overseeing WestGrid’s resource acquisition plans as well as its involvement within the broader mandate of Compute Canada.... Read more...
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February 29, 2008
February 22, 2008
University of British Columbia Assistant Professor Scott Oser, Department of Physics and Astronomy and Canada Research Chair in Solar Neutrinos, has been awarded a 2008 Sloan Research Fellowship for his work on the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory in the field of neutrino oscillations.
Oser’s research has provided insight into the properties of neutrinos and the core of the sun. WestGrid computing resources are used in parts of Oser’s work, supporting these new discoveries. The...
Read more... February 20, 2008
Jonathan Schaeffer, one of WestGrid’s Principal Investigators, has accepted the position of Vice-Provost and Associate Vice-President (Information Technology) at the University of Alberta (UofA), effective July 1, 2008.
Schaeffer is a Professor and Chair of Computing Science at the UofA, a Canada Research Chair and an iCORE Chair. His research interests are artificial intelligence and parallel/distributed computing. In the past year, Schaeffer and his research team created the first program to win a human world championship in...
February 19, 2008
Advanced Topics: MPI programming models
Roman Baranowski, University of British Columbia
12:00 PST / 13:00 MST / 14:00 CST
The main goal of parallel programming is to utilize all processors and minimize the elapsed time of the user program. Message Passing Interface allows users to realize various parallel models such as SPMD (Single program multiple data) and MPMD (Multiple programs multiple data). The focus of this presentation will be on various programming techniques using MPI in designing a parallel program or...
Read more... February 19, 2008
Ramsey theory and the infinite -- Coast to Coast Seminar Series
Dr. David S. Gunderson, Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba
11:30 PST / 12:30 MST / 13:30 CST
**Please note: For USask: ATTENDANCE BY RSVP ONLY for this seminar by email to: jason.hlady@usask.ca.
Abstract:
This talk is an invitation to infinite Ramsey theory, accessible to most mathematicians. Most combinatorists are familiar with Ramsey theory regarding...
February 11, 2008
Speaker: Gerald Cliff (University of Alberta)
Title: Weil representation
Date: Wednesday, February 13 2008
Start time: 14:00 PST / 15:00 MST / 16:00 CST / 17:00 EST
End time: 16:00 PST / 17:00 MST / 18:00 CST / 19:00 EST
NOTES:
GSB 315 at the University of Alberta,
ICICS/CS Building Room x521 at the University of British Columbia,
Biosciences 540B at the University of Calgary
Visit Seminar webpage here.
February 5, 2008
Introduction to Grid Technologies
Cameron Kiddle, University of Calgary
12:00 PST / 13:00 MST / 14:00 CST
Grid technologies are changing the way research is done. This seminar will explore what these technologies are and how researchers can benefit from using them. Current support for grid technologies in WestGrid will also be discussed.
To attend this seminar, please refer to the list of locations to find a participating Access Grid location nearest you: http...
Read more... January 28, 2008
Speaker: Matthew Greenberg (Calgary)
Title: Automorphic forms, Stark units, and Heegner points
Date: Wednesday, January 30 2008
Start time: 14:00 PST / 15:00 MST / 16:00 CST / 17:00 EST
End time: 16:00 PST / 17:00 MST / 18:00 CST / 19:00 EST
NOTES:
GSB 315 at the University of Alberta,
ICICS/CS Building Room x521 at the University of British Columbia,
Biosciences 540B at the University of Calgary
Vist Seminar webpage...
January 25, 2008
In a recent iSGTW (International Science Grid This Week) article, WestGrid Principal Investigator Michel Vetterli discusses the issues borne by managing petabytes of data produced through grid-computing applications.
“Managing storage for a large user base is not a new problem, but grids greatly amplify the scale,” he says. “Allocating storage resources is more complicated than managing compute clusters.”
Vetterli suggests the best solution might be to make... Read more...
“Managing storage for a large user base is not a new problem, but grids greatly amplify the scale,” he says. “Allocating storage resources is more complicated than managing compute clusters.”
Vetterli suggests the best solution might be to make... Read more...
January 23, 2008
Parallel Programming with OpenMP
Ed Sumbar, University of Alberta
12:00 PST / 13:00 MST / 14:00 CST
OpenMP is a parallel programming technique for shared-memory multiprocessor computers. Compared to other parallel programming methods such as MPI and Pthreads, OpenMP is easy to learn. The OpenMP approach involves the use of standard compiler directives for making blocks of code run in parallel. It is particularly well suited to parallelizing existing serial code. This session will introduce you to the essential...
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