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Events for winter/spring 2025
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Table of Contents: Webinars • Online courses • Other local bootcamps and workshops • In-person schools
Webinars
The 2025 winter/spring 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), and noon Central (Saskatoon, Winnipeg).
| DATE | TOPIC | SPEAKER | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan-21 | High-level parallel stencil computations on CPUs and GPUs in Julia | Alex Razoumov | |
| Jan-28 | Modern shell utilities | Marie-Hélène Burle | |
| Feb-11 | Running parallel Ray workflows across multiple cluster nodes | Alex Razoumov | |
| Feb-25 | Bayesian inference in JAX | Marie-Hélène Burle | |
| Mar-25 | Compliance or chaos: a research assessment survival guide | Luc Letarte & Jessica Galo | |
| Apr-08 | Introduction to Globus | Ben Lai & Michael Tang | |
| Apr-22 | Cybersecurity hygiene | Scott Baker | |
| May-06 | Using LLMs in Emacs | Marie-Hélène Burle | |
| May-20 | Introduction to Fir cluster | Alex Razoumov |
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 the Unix shell | Jan-16, Jan-23 | Marie-Hélène Burle | |
| Introduction to HPC | Jan-30, Feb-06, Feb-13 | Alex Razoumov | |
| High-performance R | Feb-27, Mar-06 | Marie-Hélène Burle | |
| Scientific visualization | Mar-13 | Alex Razoumov | |
| Parallel Julia | Mar-20, Mar-27 | Alex Razoumov | |
| Deep learning with JAX | Apr-03, Apr-10, Apr-17 | Marie-Hélène Burle | |
| HPC Python | Apr-24, May-01, May-08 | Alex Razoumov | |
| Parallel programming in Chapel | May-15, May-22 | Alex Razoumov |
Other local bootcamps and workshops
We will be adding workshops here as they are announced at other Western Canadian universities.
| DATE | EVENT | VENUE |
| Starts Jan-17 | Univ. of Alberta Winter Bootcamp | Online |
Summer school
The 2025 Research Computing summer school will be held on June 9-13. More details will be announced in April.
As always, we welcome requests for other training topics and events. Please email suggestions to training at westdri dot ca.
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