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SciNet Class Schedule
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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, 12-1:30. First of the year, with Pizza!
- Fri 10 Sept, 12-1:30.
Please bring a print-out of the latest User Tutorial to the class.
More will be given throughout the year depending on user interest.
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:
- Wed 8 Sept: The GPFS File Systems
- Wed 13 Oct: Version control on SciNet - svn, git, mercurial
- Wed 10 Nov: Debuggers & parallel debugging on SciNet - gdb, ddd, padb
- Wed 8 Dec: Performance and profiling on SciNet - gprof, scalasca, peekperf
Classes
- Sept 22: Intro to Parallel Programming (whole day)
- Oct 6: Parallel I/O (whole day)
- May 2011: 5-day Parallel Programming course.
OpenMP, MPI and more will be covered. The aim is for you to leave the course able to start parallelizing your code.

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!