News And Events Archive

The main page of the wiki lists the most recent News and Events at SciNet and on the SciNet systems; here we archive previous events.

Feb 22, 2011: Science Illustrated A two-day workshop on the technical and compositional techniques for creating good visualizations of scientific data.

Feb 9, 2011: SNUG - TechTalk by Seth Dworkin on Computational Combustion

Jan 27, 2011: Intro to Parallel Programming A full-day course.

Jan 19-20, 2011: Maintenance window.

Jan 18, 2011: Intro to SciNet A class of approximately 90 minutes to learn how to use the systems.

Jan 12, 2011: SNUG - TechTalks: Biochemistry and Astrophysics

Dec 22, 2010 - Jan 2, 2011: SciNet offices are officially closed, but the system will be up and running and the support staff will keep an eye out for emergencies.

Dec 8, 2010: SNUG meeting, with TechTalk 'Performance and Profiling'.

Nov 10, 2010: SNUG meeting, with TechTalk 'Debuggers'.

Oct 13, 2010: SNUG meeting, with TechTalk 'Version control'.

Oct 6, 2010: Day long class Parallel I/O.

Sept 22, 2010: Day long class Intro to Parallel Programming.

Sept 8, 2010: SNUG meeting, with TechTalk 'The Parallel File Systems and I/O'.

Sept 3 and Sept 10, 12-1:30: Intro to SciNet classes.

Aug 30, 2010: Some SciNet courses have been announced for the coming semester. Find out more and sign up at our Courses website. Suggestions for other courses are welcome!

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!