Category: News
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2023 Compute Ontario Summer School
Empower your Research: Expand Your Knowledge We are excited to announce that registration is now open for the highly anticipated 2023 Compute Ontario Summer School! Jointly organized by the Centre for Advanced Computing, SciNet, SHARCNET, and in collaboration with the RDM Network of Experts, this virtual event promises to be an enriching experience for all…
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International HPC Summer School 2023, July 9-14, Atlanta, GA
Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from institutions in Canada, Europe, Japan, Australia and the United States are being invited to apply for the 13th International HPC Summer School, to be held on July 9-14 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, hosted by the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). In a nutshell, the summer school will…
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SciNet Training 2022/2023
The following training events will be offered by SciNet in 2022/2023. Some events take place online, others are in-person in out teaching room at the SciNet offices on the St. George Campus of the University of Toronto (https://www.scinethpc.ca/contact-us/). The in-person events are usually also broadcasted and recorded. All times below are in Eastern Time. All events…
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2022 Compute Ontario Summer School
This Summer School, jointly organized by SHARCNET, SciNet and Centre for Advanced Computing, will start on May 30th, 2022. We are pleased to announce the 2022 Compute Ontario Summer School jointly organized by the three consortia, Centre for Advanced Computing, SciNet and SHARCNET. The Summer School is a free series of workshops on skills and…
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Niagara at Scale – June 2022
What is “Niagara at Scale”? “Niagara at Scale” are events where the Niagara supercomputer is reserved for two days for large parallel computations on the order of the size of the cluster. In 2021, SciNet held two successful “Niagara at Scale” events. Because of further demand for such large computations, another “Niagara at Scale” event…
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International HPC Summer School, Greece, June 19-24, 2022
Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from institutions in Canada, Europe, Japan and the United States, are being invited to apply to participate in the 12th International HPC Summer School, to be held June 19-24 in Athens, Greece, hosted by the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE). To apply, visit the event’s website at https://ss22.ihpcss.org.…
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Niagara at Scale – Oct 2021
SciNet held a successful event “Niagara at Scale” in the Spring of 2021, during which Niagara was reserved for 48 hours for large parallel computations on the order of the size of the cluster. Such “heroic computations” are Niagara’s mandate, but they are hard to run within the regular batch scheduler. Because of further demand…
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SciNet Virtual Summer Training Program 2021
For the second summer in a row, in lieu of its annual Ontario Summer School, SciNet will be offering weekly virtual summer training on Advanced Research Computing from June through to early September. Topics will include parallel programming, Linux shell, cybersecurity, large scale batch processing, and performance Python and R. The program will start on…
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Industry Post-doc Position in Dynamical Downscaling
Professor W. R. Peltier at the University of Toronto Department of Physics in collaboration with Aquanty invites applications for a postdoctoral research associate to investigate climate change impacts in northern Canada. The research work will include dynamical downscaling of climate projections, with an emphasis on land-surface – climate interactions in Arctic regions. The successful candidate…
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Niagara at Scale Pilot
SciNet will be reserving the Niagara cluster for two days in March for the first-ever “Niagara at Scale”, from March 30th, 2021, at 12 noon EST, to April 1st, 2021, at 12 noon EST. Purpose of the “Niagara at Scale” event This event will enable pre-approved projects that require all or nearly all of the…