Events for winter-spring 2020
Webinars
WestGrid’s bi-weekly training webinars take place every second Wednesday at 10am Pacific / 11am Mountain / 12pm Central.
To view recordings and slides from past sessions, click on the linked title.
| DATE | TOPIC | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Jan-151 | Photorealistic rendering with ParaView and OSPRay | Alex Razoumov |
| Feb-05 | Singularity in HPC: beyond the basics | Grigory Shamov |
| Feb-19 | Fun tools to simplify your life in the command line | Marie-Hélène Burle |
| Mar-04 | High-performance research computing with Julia | Marie-Hélène Burle |
| Mar-18 | Working with data files and external C libraries in Chapel | Alex Razoumov |
| Apr-01 | Scientific graphics with GNUPlot | Dmitri Rozmanov |
| Apr-08 | Intro to HPC (remote for UBC Research Commons) | Alex Razoumov |
| Apr-15 | Building software on Compute Canada clusters using EasyBuild | Ali Kerrache |
| Apr-29 | Web-based 3D scientific visualization | Alex Razoumov |
| May-06 | Intro to Cloud Computing (remote for UBC Research Commons) | pre-recorded |
| May-13 | Machine learning in Julia with Flux | Marie-Hélène Burle |
| May-27 | Mining Twitter data for research (part 2) | John Simpson |
In-person workshops
| DATE | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Feb-07 | Advanced Unix Shell | UBC Research Commons |
| Mar-2,3,5,6 | WestGrid Spring School | Big Data Hub @SFU |
| Mar-09 | WestGrid workshop at BMIAI@UBC | UBC |
| Mar-13 | Advanced GitHub | UBC Research Commons |
| TBA | WestGrid Summer School | online |
You might also find useful the following workshops taught by our partner Advanced Research Computing (ARC) teams at the WestGrid member institutions:
- Hands-on introduction to HPC at USask
- Research Computing Bootcamps at UofA
As always, we welcome requests for other training topics and events. Please email suggestions to info at westgrid dor ca.
Footnotes
Note the off-cycle week.↩︎