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.
Mar 13, 2013: March SNUG. TechTalk: Using sparse matrices and solver routines from the Intel Math Kernel Library (Deepak Chandan)
Mar 13, 2013: Intro to SciNet
Mar 5,7,12,14,19,21,26,28, 2013: Scientific Computing Course - Lectures 13-20
Feb 27, 2013: Parallel I/O Course
Feb 12,14,26,28, 2013: Scientific Computing Course - Lectures 9-12
Feb 13, 2013: February SNUG. TechTalk: Demystifying HPSS
Feb 5,7, 2013: Scientific Computing Course - Lectures 7-8
Jan 17,22,24,29,31, 2013: Scientific Computing Course - Lectures 2-6
Jan 15, 2013: Scientific Computing Course - Lecture 1
Jan 16, 2013: Scientific Intro to SciNet
Jan 16-17, 2013: Maintenance Shutdown
Jan 9, 2013: January SNUG. TechTalk: Interactive Computational Biology (Chris Ing)
Nov 28, 2012: Parallel debugging with DDT Dec 4, 2012: Introducing Allinea MAP: A Profiler for Scientists and Engineers Dec 12, 2012: December SNUG. TechTalk: VNC
Nov 26, 2012: SciDev Seminar by Élénie Godzaridis and Sébastien Boisvert on Granularities and messages
Nov 7, 2012: Intro to SciNet
Nov 9, 2012: SciDev Seminar by Fernando Perez on IPython: tools for the entire lifecycle of research computing
Nov 14, 2012: November SNUG. TechTalk: GNU Parallel for Large Batches of Small Jobs
Oct 10, 2012: Intro to the Linux Shell
Oct 10, 2012: October SNUG. TechTalk: Blue Gene/Q
Oct 23, 2012: SciDev Seminar by Michael Nolta (CITA) on The Julia Language
Sep 25, 2012, Workflow optimization for Large Scale Bioinformatics
Sep 12, 2012, Intro to SciNet
Sep 12, 2012: September SNUG. TechTalk: Science=Data
Sep 17, 2012: SciDev Seminar by Kit Barton (IBM) on XL Compilers and Optimization
Jun 7, 2012: SciNet Shutdown, at least till 10PM.
Jun 13, 2012: June SNUG TechTalk by Ramses van Zon: Remote Development on SciNet
Jun 25-28, 2012: Ontario Summerschool for High Performance Computing - Central, hosted by SciNet
Apr 11, 2012: April SNUG TechTalk: Scott Northrup on Infiniband
Apr 19, 2012: SciNet completes full Infiniband Network Upgrade
Apr 23, 2012: Scientific C++
May 8-9, 2012: SciNet downtime
May 9, 2012: Intro to SciNet (aimed at new users)
May 9, 2012: May SNUG TechTalk by Jonathan Dursi: Parallel I/O doesn't have to be so hard: The ADIOS library
May 14-18, 2012: ScicomP
Mar 14, 2012: SNUG Meeting TechTalk: "Intel Math Kernel Library".
Mar 26, 2012: Intro to SciNet
Mar 28, 2012: Intro to Linux Shell
Feb 8, 2012: SNUG Meeting TechTalk: Jonathan Dursi: "Tuning your MPI application without writing code: mpitune and otpo"
Feb 9, 2012: 9am: short downtime
Feb 10, 2012: Start of SciNet mini-course Scientific Computing III
Jan 13, 2012: Start of SciNet mini-course Scientific Computing II
Jan 17/18 Scheduled down-time
Jan 30: CentOS 5 phase-out
Dec 5, 2011: Transition to CentOS 6
Dec 14, 2011: SNUG Meeting TechTalk "Compiler and Optimization Flags"
Dec 15, 2011: Introduction to GPGPU with CUDA
Jan 9, 2012: Intro to the Unix Shell
Jan 11, 2012: Intro to SciNet
Jan 11, 2012: SNUG Meeting TechTalk TBA
Nov 4, 2011: Start of SciNet mini-course Scientific Computing I - Scientific Software Development.
Nov 9, 2011: SNUG Meeting TechTalk TBA
Oct 26, 2011: Modern Fortran
Oct 12, 2011: SNUG Meeting TechTalk by Manuel Saldana (Arch Es Computing) on "MPI as a programming model for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computers"
Sept 30, 2011: Parallel I/O
Sept 26, 2011: GPGPU Workshop (new date!)
Sept 14, 2011: SciNet User Group Meeting (SNUG) TechTalk by Jaime Pinto (SciNet) on "HPSS - SciNet's storage capacity expansion"
Sept 9, 2011: Intro to SciNet
Jul 11-13, 2011: HPCVL: Practical Parallel Programming With OpenMP and MPI
Jul 20, 2011: SHARCNET: Introduction to Linux
Jun 13-17, 2011: High Performancs Computing Symposium 2011 in Montreal. HPCS2011 is a multidisciplinary conference that focuses on research involving High Performance Computing and its application. The actual symposium is from June 15 to 17. There are very worthwhile tutorial sessions on the two days before. More info can be found at at http://2011.hpcs.ca
Jun 8, 2011: SNUG - TechTalk: Pierre de Buyl on f2py
May 9-13, 2011: Practical Parallel Programming Intensive Intensive week-long workshop.
Apr 27, 2011: Shutdown of the SciNet systems scheduled to make repairs and improvements to the cooling system.
Apr 19, 2011: Introduction to Scientific Programming in Modern Fortran A full-day course.
Apr 13, 2011: SNUG - TechTalk: "User-space modules and packages on SciNet"
Mar 15, 2011: Introduction to Scientific Programming in C++ A full-day course.
Mar 9, 2011: SNUG - TechTalks by Abdul Mroue and Joachim Harnois-Deraps.
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!