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