Events for fall 2024
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Events for fall 2024

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Table of Contents:   WebinarsOnline coursesOther local bootcamps and workshopsIn-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).

DATETOPICSPEAKER 
Sep-17Understanding Emacs modesMarie-Hélène Burle (SFU) 
Oct-01GPU computing with ChapelAlex Razoumov (SFU) 
Oct-15Best practices in HPC/HTC environmentsRoman Baranowski (UBC) 
Oct-29LazygitMarie-Hélène Burle (SFU) 
Nov-12Nextflow and Julia for scalable computationAlexandre Bouchard-Côtén (UBC)
Nov-26Distributed file storage with git-annexAlex Razoumov (SFU) 
Dec-10Intro to the Alliance CloudMichael 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.

COURSEDATESINSTRUCTOR 
Introduction to HPCSep-12, Sep-19Alex Razoumov 
Beginner’s introduction to EmacsSep-26, Oct-03Marie-Hélène Burle 
Working with Apptainer containersOct-10, Oct-17Alex Razoumov 
Faster Python DataFrames with PolarsOct-24Marie-Hélène Burle 
Parallel coding in PythonOct-31, Nov-07Alex Razoumov and Marie-Hélène Burle 
Hands-on with ParaView’s Programmable Filter / Source for scientific visualizationNov-14Alex Razoumov
Large-scale and remote visualization]Nov-21Alex Razoumov
Version control with GitNov-28Marie-Hélène Burle 
Using GPUs with ChapelDec-05, Dec-12Alex Razoumov
Answering your Bash questionsDec-19Alex Razoumov &
Marie-Hélène Burle

Other local bootcamps and workshops

We will be adding workshops here as they are announced at other Western Canadian universities.

DATEEVENTVENUE
Starts Sep-20Univ. of Alberta Fall BootcampOnline

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.

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