Category: News
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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…
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2020 International Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada, July 7-12
Update April 17, 2020: This event has been postponed to 2021. Applications open November 29, 2019, and are due January 27, 2020 Who can apply: Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from institutions in Canada, Europe, Japan and the United States, especially if you use advanced computing in your research. Students from underrepresented groups in computing…
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SciNet Job Opportunity: Manager, Information Systems Security
SciNet is looking for a Manager, Information Systems Security. This individual will be working under the direction of SciNet’s Chief Technical Officer (CTO) in coordination with the University of Toronto’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), the Manager, Information Systems Security is responsible for working with Information Technology staff and resources at SciNet and the wider…
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Vizualize This! Competition
Visualize What? Now in its fourth year, Visualize This! invites researchers from all disciplines to use their own datasets — or our sample dataset — to build a unique and innovative visualization that displays an interesting aspect of the data. Our panel of judges will review all entries, and prizes will be awarded to the…
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SciNet’s Summer School: a decade-old tradition
Most would associate summertime with a relaxing and leisurely season of the year. However, HPC centres like SciNet, as in many others around the world, perceive this differently and are actually quite busy during this period. Among the many activities SciNet carries out during the summer “break” are workshops and short courses. These activities are…