Events for winter-spring 2021
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-20 | Workflows with Programmable Filter / Source in ParaView | Alex Razoumov |
| Feb-03 | Advanced GIS mapping in R | Marie-Hélène Burle |
| Feb-17 | Automating your backups in Linux and MacOS | Alex Razoumov |
| Mar-03 | Linking databases to code repositories with Throughput | Simon Goring |
| Mar-17 | Parallel Julia | Alex Razoumov and Marie-Hélène Burle |
| Mar-31 | Exploring the state of a Slurm cluster with Clusterstats | Kamil Marcinkowski |
| Apr-14 | Introduction to deep learning with fastai | Marie-Hélène Burle |
| Apr-28 | Scientific visualization on NVIDIA GPUs | Nick Leaf (NVIDIA) |
| May-12 | Exploration of tools and approaches for Humanists | Megan Meredith-Lobay |
| May-26 | Using Singularity containers in VMs and HPC | Venkat Mahadevan |
Other workshops
| DATE | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Jan-14 | Tips & tricks on getting programming help online | Online for UBC Research Commons |
| Feb-11 | Automating your backups in Linux and MacOS | Online for UBC Research Commons |
| Feb-16 to Feb-19 | Compute Canada’s Humanities and Social Sciences series | Online |
| Feb-22 to Mar-03 | NVIDIA GPU Hackathon @SFU | Online |
| Mar-29 to Mar-30 | Workshops for the GIWS @USask | Online |
| Apr-08 | Basics of GIS mapping in R | Online for UBC Research Commons |
| Apr-26 | Spatial Analysis/GIS in R | UBC |
| May-13 | Parallel programming in Julia | Online for UBC Research Commons |
| Apr-27 to Jul-27 | WestGrid training modules 2021 | Online |