SciNet Users Group (SNUG)

Meetings

The SciNet Users Group (SNUG) currently meets every month on the second Wednesday from 12:00 to 1:30 and involve pizza, user discussion, feedback, and a half-hour talk on topics or technologies of interest to the SciNet community.

For more information, and to sign up, please visit https://support.scinet.utoronto.ca/courses/

Upcoming topics for the half-hour prepared talk

• October's SNUG will be on the 13th, and the TechTalk will be: "Version control on SciNet - svn, git, mercurial".
• November's SNUG will be on the 10th, and the TechTalk will be: "Debuggers & parallel debugging on SciNet - gdb, ddd, padb"
• December's SNUG will be on the 8th, and the TechTalk will be: "Performance and profiling on SciNet - gprof, scalasca, peekperf"

Desired topics for the half-hour prepared talk

• Walk-through of Compute Canada resources (nation-wide)
• How to write a successful application for computational resources
• Add yours here!

Previous topics for the half-hour prepared talk

• September's SNUG will be on the 8th, and the TechTalk will be: "The SciNet GPFS file systems and you".

Suggestions

• Turning this suggestion list into something to which users can not only add ideas, but also vote on them.
• Some type of online communication device to foster communication between users that is more like a mailing list than this wiki
• Each SNUG begins with a very informal go-round in which each user mentions something they learned recently, something they did recently, some problem they had recently, etc.
• Create an audiotape of the meetings and run it through voice detection software (e.g. Dragon Naturally Speaking) and post the output to the wiki as minutes (no formatting or human editing, just whatever comes out of the software so that it doesn't end up being a huge chore).
• make this SNUG page require a login (or make some other change so that google won't index it)
• Add yours here!