Events for fall 2018
For more information on each session, or to register, click on the links below.
Webinars
WestGrid’s bi-weekly training webinars take place every second Wednesday at 10am Pacific / 11am Mountain / 12pm Central. Note two off-cycle special dates (Sep-20 and mid-November).
| DATE | TOPIC | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Sep-19 | How to submit and run jobs on Compute Canada HPC systems | Alex Razoumov |
| Sep-20 (special time) | Arbutus Upgrade: What you need to know | Ryan Enge and Venkat Mahadevan |
| Oct-03 | Common job submission errors and how to avoid them | Kamil Marcinkowski |
| Oct-17 | Tools for automating analysis pipelines | Jamie Rosner |
| Oct-31 | Data Analytics and Machine Learning with MATLAB | Sumit Tandon (MathWorks) |
| Nov-14 | How HPC helped researchers simulate the life of a star | Falk Herwig (UVic) |
| Nov-21 (alternate week) | Using yt for analysis and visualization of volumetric data | Alex Razoumov |
| Nov-28 | Getting started on the cloud (humanities/social sci. Part 1) | John Simpson |
| Dec-12 | How to deploy HTTP and HTTPS sites on a virtual machine (humanities/social sciences Part 2) | John Simpson |
In-person workshops
| DATE | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Sep-24 to 28 | Research Computing Fall Bootcamp | UofA |
| Sep-25 | Introduction to Python | SFU’s Big Data Hub |
| Oct-23 | A taste of parallel programming with Chapel | SFU, Bennett Library, Rm 7010, Research Commons |
| Nov-02, 3pm-5pm | Introductory Research Computing Workshop | University of Manitoba, Department of Biochemistry and Medical Genetics, Basic Medical Science Building, Room 341 |
As always, we welcome requests for other training topics and events. Please email suggestions to info at westgrid dot ca.