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== News and Recent Events ==
 
== News and Recent Events ==
'''''SciNet Class Schedule'''''<br>Let us know which one(s) you will attend by [mailto:support@scinet.utoronto.ca email].<br>All classes will be given at the [http://www.scinet.utoronto.ca/about/Contact.htm SciNet headquarters]
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'''''SciNet Class Schedule'''''<br>Some SciNet courses have been announced for the coming semester, and we're looking for suggestions for more!  Find out more and sign up at our [https://support.scinet.utoronto.ca/courses/ Courses website].
* "Intro to SciNet" classes. These will take about 90 minutes of your time and you will learn a lot on how to use SciNet's systems. Even experienced SciNet users may still pick up some pointers.<br>- '''Fri 3 Sept, 12-1:30'''.  First of the year, with Pizza!<br>- '''Fri 10 Sept, 12-1:30.'''<br>Please bring a print-out of the latest User Tutorial to the class.<br>More will be given throughout the year depending on user interest.
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* "Intro to SciNet" classes. These will take about 90 minutes of your time and you will learn a lot on how to use SciNet's systems. Even experienced SciNet users may still pick up some pointers.'''Fri 3 Sept''' and '''Fri 10 Sept''', '''12-1:30'''.
* TechTalk: These half-hour sessions will be part of the SciNet User Group meetings, every second Wednesday of the month at '''12 noon'''. SNUG meeting will also include user discussion and pizza. TechTalk Topics:<br>- '''Wed 8 Sept:''' The GPFS File Systems<br>- '''Wed 13 Oct:''' Version control on SciNet - svn, git, mercurial<br>- '''Wed 10 Nov:''' Debuggers & parallel debugging on SciNet - gdb, ddd, padb<br>- '''Wed 8 Dec:'''  Performance and profiling on SciNet - gprof, scalasca, peekperf
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* TechTalks: These half-hour sessions will be part of the SciNet User Group meetings, every second Wednesday of the month at '''12 noon'''. SNUG meeting will also include user discussion and pizza. Topics this semester include The GPFS File Systems(Sept), Version control (Oct), Debuggers & parallel debugging (Nov), and Performance and profiling tools (Dec).
* Classes<br>- '''Sept 22:'''  Intro to Parallel Programming (whole day)<br>- '''Oct 6:''' Parallel I/O (whole day)<br>- '''May 2011:''' 5-day Parallel Programming course.<br>OpenMP, MPI and more will be covered. The aim is for you to leave the course able to start parallelizing your code.
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* Day long classes including Intro to Parallel Programming (Sept 22), Parallel I/O (Oct 6)
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More details are available at our [https://support.scinet.utoronto.ca/courses/ Courses website].
  
 
July 14, 2010: SciNet hosted a [[SciNet GPU Workshop July 2010|one-day workshop for GPGPU users]].
 
July 14, 2010: SciNet hosted a [[SciNet GPU Workshop July 2010|one-day workshop for GPGPU users]].

Revision as of 15:31, 2 September 2010

News and Recent Events

SciNet Class Schedule
Some SciNet courses have been announced for the coming semester, and we're looking for suggestions for more! Find out more and sign up at our Courses website.

  • "Intro to SciNet" classes. These will take about 90 minutes of your time and you will learn a lot on how to use SciNet's systems. Even experienced SciNet users may still pick up some pointers.Fri 3 Sept and Fri 10 Sept, 12-1:30.
  • TechTalks: These half-hour sessions will be part of the SciNet User Group meetings, every second Wednesday of the month at 12 noon. SNUG meeting will also include user discussion and pizza. Topics this semester include The GPFS File Systems(Sept), Version control (Oct), Debuggers & parallel debugging (Nov), and Performance and profiling tools (Dec).
  • Day long classes including Intro to Parallel Programming (Sept 22), Parallel I/O (Oct 6)

More details are available at our Courses website.

July 14, 2010: SciNet hosted a one-day workshop for GPGPU users.

Jun 5-9, 2010: SciNet hosted HPCS 2010, the annual Canadian HPC conference for practitioners in all disciplines.

Aug 31-Sept 4, 2009: SciNet is holding a parallel programming course

June 2009: The new GPC cluster is ranked 16th in the world !

April 2009: GPC Is Being Installed!