Events for fall 2024
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Table of Contents: Webinars • Online courses • Other local bootcamps and workshops • In-person schools
Webinars
The 2024 fall webinars are jointly presented by SFU’s Research Computing Group (RCG) and UBC’s Advanced Research Computing (ARC). These webinars are held every second Tuesday at 10:00am Pacific (Victoria, Vancouver), 11:00am Mountain (Edmonton, Calgary, Saskatoon), and noon Central (Winnipeg).
| DATE | TOPIC | SPEAKER |
|---|---|---|
| Sep-17 | Understanding Emacs modes | Marie-Hélène Burle (SFU) |
| Oct-01 | GPU computing with Chapel | Alex Razoumov (SFU) |
| Oct-15 | Best practices in HPC/HTC environments | Roman Baranowski (UBC) |
| Oct-29 | Lazygit | Marie-Hélène Burle (SFU) |
| Nov-12 | Nextflow and Julia for scalable computation | Alexandre Bouchard-Côtén (UBC) |
| Nov-26 | Distributed file storage with git-annex | Alex Razoumov (SFU) |
| Dec-10 | Intro to the Alliance Cloud | Michael Tang (UBC) |
Online courses
SFU Research Computing offers weekly online sessions on advanced research computing. These sessions take place every Thursday from 10am to noon Pacific and are open to all academic researchers across Canada. Most courses span 2 weeks, although some courses may be shorter or longer.
Please note that these sessions are not recorded, as we want to encourage attendance and live interaction, and we are planning to repeat the most popular / introductory sessions throughout the year.
| COURSE | DATES | INSTRUCTOR |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction to HPC | Sep-12, Sep-19 |
Alex Razoumov |
| Beginner’s introduction to Emacs | Sep-26, Oct-03 |
Marie-Hélène Burle |
| Working with Apptainer containers | Oct-10, Oct-17 |
Alex Razoumov |
| Faster Python DataFrames with Polars | Oct-24 | Marie-Hélène Burle |
| Parallel coding in Python | Oct-31, Nov-07 |
Alex Razoumov and Marie-Hélène Burle |
| Hands-on with ParaView’s Programmable Filter / Source for scientific visualization | Nov-14 | Alex Razoumov |
| Large-scale and remote visualization | Nov-21 | Alex Razoumov |
| Version control with Git | Nov-28 | Marie-Hélène Burle |
| Using GPUs with Chapel | Dec-05, Dec-12 |
Alex Razoumov |
| Answering your Bash questions | Dec-19 | Marie-Hélène Burle and Alex Razoumov |
Bootcamps and workshops
We will be adding workshops here as they are announced at other Western Canadian universities.
| DATE | EVENT | VENUE |
|---|---|---|
| Starts Sep-20 | Univ. of Alberta Fall Bootcamp | Online |
In-person schools
Typically at the end of a term we organize a longer, in-person research computing school at SFU that is open to all students, postdocs, faculty and staff. We will add more information here.
As always, we welcome requests for other training topics and events. Please email suggestions to training at westdri dot ca.