SciNet TechTalks and Seminars

The SciNet Users Group (SNUG) meetings are every month on the second Wednesday, and involve pizza, user discussion, feedback, and a TechTalk or two (half-hour talk or two 15 minutes talks) on topics or technologies of interest to the SciNet community.

The pdfs of these TechTalks can be found here on the wiki. Below is a chronological list. Most pdfs can also be found on the Tutorials and manuals page which is ordered by topic.

Jan 11, 2017, SNUG TechTalk

• Ramses van Zon (SciNet)
  Jupyter Hub on SciNet

Dec 14, 2016, SNUG TechTalk

• Ricardo Harripaul (CAMH)
  Computationally Mapping Autosomal Resessive Intellectual Disability

Oct 12, 2016, SNUG TechTalk

• Scott Northrup (SciNet)
  Intel Xeon Phi Knights Landing

Sept 14, 2016, SNUG TechTalk

• Marcelo Ponce (SciNet, UofT)
  Overview of 3D Scientific Visualization Tools

Jun 8, 2016, SNUG TechTalk

• Michael Wong (Codeplay/Canadian Head of Delegation to the C++ Standard)
  C++17: Will it be great or just OK?

May 11, 2016, SNUG TechTalk

• Jon Pipitone (CAMH)
  qbatch - a tool for executing commands in parallel on clusters

Apr 13, 2016, SNUG TechTalk

• AJ Guillon (Yetiware Inc.)
  Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered: Parallelism and Memory Modules

Feb 10, 2016, SNUG TechTalk

• Marcelo Ponce (SciNet)
  Scientific Visualization, an overview of VisIt
  data

Dec 9, 2015, SNUG TechTalk

• Ramses van Zon (SciNet)
  LMOD: a hierarchical system for software modules

Nov 25, 2015: Seminar

• Andre Recnik (University of Toronto)
  The CHIME X-Engine: A 7 PetaOP supercomputer with a 6.5 Tb/s network

Oct 14, 2015: SNUG TechTalk

• Ramses van Zon (SciNet)
  Remote graphics on the GPC: client-server application and VNC

Sept 9, 2015: SNUG TechTalk

• Leslie Barnes and Dylanne Dearborn (UoT)
  Research Data Management: A Brief Introduction

Jun 10, 2015: SNUG TechTalk

• Ramses van Zon (SciNet)
  Multidimensional Arrays in C++: rarrays

Apr 8, 2015: SNUG TechTalk

• Marcelo Ponce (SciNet)
  Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics: Applications to Astrophysical Simulations

Mar 11, 2015: SNUG TechTalk

• Mike Nolta (SciNet)
  Job and Queue Management

Feb 11, 2015: SNUG TechTalk

• Ramses van Zon (SciNet)
  Data Management and Transfer Tools at SciNet

Nov 19, 2014: SNUG TechTalk

• Scott Northrup (SciNet)
  New Features in CUDA 5 & 6, Nov. 2014

Oct 8, 2014: SNUG TechTalk

• Jonathan Dursi (SciNet)
  PyTables: Large Data and HDF5 in Python

Sept 10, 2014: SNUG TechTalk

• Jason Chong (SciNet)
  Globus

May 14, 2014: SNUG TechTalk

• Chris Szalwinski (Seneca College)
  Getting Started with Cilk Plus

Apr 9, 2014: SNUG TechTalk

• Ramses van Zon (SciNet)
  Keep inventory of your data on different file systems with ISH

Mar 12, 2014: SNUG TechTalk

• Bertrand Brelier (IBM@SciNet)
  Introduction to NetCDF4 binary files with Python, C++ and R

Feb 12, 2014: SNUG TechTalk

• Scott Northrup (SciNet)
  Introduction to the Xeon Phi

Jan 15, 2014: SNUG TechTalk

• Ramses van Zon (SciNet)
  IPython Notebook on GPC

Dec 11, 2013: SNUG TechTalk

• Ramses van Zon (SciNet)
  New and Existing Resources Available at SciNet

Nov 13, 2013: SNUG TechTalk

• Peter Colberg (SciNet)
  Self-propelled dimer motors: Small-code large-scale simulations using OpenCL and LuaJIT

Oct 16, 2013: SNUG TechTalk

• Ramses van Zon (SciNet)
  Using MySQL on the GPC

Sep 11, 2013: SNUG TechTalk

• Peter Colberg (Chemistry, University of Toronto)
  Git-annex or: How I learned to stop worrying and manage the data

May 1, 2013: SNUG TechTalk

• Ramses van Zon (SciNet)
  Monitoring jobs at SciNet (slides)

April 10, 2013: SNUG TechTalk

• Scott Zuyderduyn (Bader Lab, U. of Toronto)
  Using GPUs to Model Higher-Dimensional Influences in Biological Networks

Mar 13, 2013: SNUG TechTalk

• Deepak Chandan (Phyics, University of Toronto)
  Using sparse matrices and solver routines from the Intel Math Kernel Library (slides)

Feb 13, 2013: SNUG TechTalk

• Ramses van Zon/Jaime Pinto (SciNet)
  Demystifying HPSS (slides)

Jan 9, 2013: SNUG TechTalk

• Christopher Ing (Pomès Lab, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto)
  Interactive Computational Biology (slides)

Dec 12, 2012: SNUG TechTalk

• Ramses van Zon (SciNet)
  Faster remote graphical interfaces with VNC (slides)

Nov 27, 2012: SciNet Bioinformatics Seminar

• Sébastien Boisvert and Élénie Godzaridis (Laval)
  Massively parallel assemblers for massively parallel DNA sequencers (slides)

Nov 26, 2012: SciNet Developer Seminar

• Élénie Godzaridis, Sébastien Boisvert (Laval)
  Granularities and messages: from design to abstraction to implementation to virtualization (slides)

Nov 14, 2012: SNUG TechTalk

• Ramses van Zon (SciNet)
  GNU Parallel (slides)

Oct 24, 2012: SciNet Developer Seminar

• Mark Ebersole (NVIDIA)
  OpenACC (slides)

Oct 23, 2012: SciNet Developer Seminar

• Michael Nolta (CITA, Toronto)
  The Julia Language (slides)

Oct 10, 2012: SNUG TechTalk

• Scott Northrup (SciNet)
  SciNet BlueGene/Q (slides)

Oct 3, 2012: SciNet Developer Seminar

• Kit Barton (IBM)
  Performance Tuning with the IBM XL Compilers (slides)

Sep 12, 2012: SNUG TechTalk

• Jaime Pinto (SciNet)
  Science is Data (slides)

Jun 13, 2012: SNUG TechTalk

• Ramses van Zon (SciNet)
  Remote development on SciNet (slides)

May 9, 2012: SNUG TechTalk

• Jonathan Dursi (SciNet)
  ADIOS for Parallel IO (slides)
  source code

Apr 11, 2012: SNUG TechTalk

• Scott Northrup (SciNet)
  SciNet's Infiniband Network & MPI options (slides)

March 14, 2012: SNUG TechTalk

• Ramses van Zon (SciNet)
  Intel Math Kernel Library (slides)

February 8, 2012: SNUG TechTalk

• Jonathan Dursi (SciNet)
  MPI Tuning Parameters (slides)

January 11, 2012: SNUG TechTalk

• Chris Neale, Pawel Pomorski, Nilmadhab Chakrabarti, Emil F. Pai, Régis Pomès (Sick Children's Hospital)
  Kinetics of Hydrophobic Gating and Energetics of Magnesium Permeation in the Bacterial Divalent Cation Transport System CorA

December 14, 2011: SNUG TechTalk

• Scott Northrup (SciNet)
  Intel Compiler Optimizations (slides)

November 9, 2011: SNUG TechTalk

• Ramses van Zon (SciNet)
  How to deal with the new file system setup at SciNet (slides)

October 12, 2011: SNUG TechTalk

• Manuel Saldaña (Arch Es Computing)
  MPI as a programming model for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computers (slides)

September 14, 2011: SNUG TechTalk

• Jaime Pinto (SciNet)
  HPSS - SciNet's Storage Capacity Expansion (slides)

June 8, 2011: SNUG TechTalk

• Pierre de Buyl (CPTG Toronto/ULB Brussels)
  Fortran and Python (slides)

May 4, 2011: SNUG TechTalk

• Peter Colberg (CPTG, Toronto)
  Scripting HALMD with Lua and Luabind (slides)

April 12, 2011: SNUG TechTalk

• Rames van Zon (SciNet)
  User-Space Modules and Packages on SciNet (slides)

March 9, 2011: SNUG TechTalks

• Abdul Mroue (CITA, Toronto)
  Precessing Binary Black Hole Simulations (slides)
• Joachim Harnois-Déraps (CITA, Toronto)
  Weak Gravitational Lensing (slides)

February 9, 2011: SNUG TechTalk

• Seth Dworkin (Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, UoT)
  Computational Combustion: Toward the use of Sustainable and Alternative Fuels (slides)
• Ramses van Zon (SciNet)
  Job Monitoring on SciNet and Job Efficiency (slides)

January 12, 2011: SNUG TechTalks

• Sarah Rauscher (Regis Pomes group, Sick Kids, Toronto)
  MD Simulations of Biomolecular Systems (slides)
• Bijia Pang (Ue-Li Pen group, CITA, UoT)
  Black Hole Accretion on 17576 CPUs (slides)

December 8, 2010: SNUG TechTalk

• Jonathan Dursi (SciNet)
  Profiling and Tuning (slides)

November 10, 2010: SNUG TechTalk

• Ramses van Zon (SciNet)
  Debuggers & Parallel Debugging on SciNet - gdb, ddd, padb (slides)

October 13, 2010: SNUG TechTalk

• Scott Northrup (SciNet)
  Version Control (slides)

September 8, 2010: SNUG TechTalk

• Ramses van Zon (SciNet)
  The Parallel File System and I/O (slides)