SciNet TechTalks and Seminars

The SciNet Users Group (SNUG) meetings are every month on the second Wednesday, and involve pizza, user discussion, feedback, and a TechTalk or two (half-hour talk or two 15 minutes talks) on topics or technologies of interest to the SciNet community.

The pdfs of these TechTalks can be found here on the wiki. Below is a chronological list. Most pdfs can also be found on the Tutorials and manuals page which is ordered by topic.

Nov 27, 2012: SciNet Bioinformatics Seminar

• Sébastien Boisvert and Élénie Godzaridis (Laval)
  Massively parallel assemblers for massively parallel DNA sequencers

Nov 26, 2012: SciNet Developer Seminar

• Élénie Godzaridis, Sébastien Boisvert (Laval)
  Granularities and messages: from design to abstraction to implementation to virtualization

Nov 14, 2012: SNUG TechTalk

• Ramses van Zon (SciNet)
  GNU Parallel

Oct 24, 2012: SciNet Developer Seminar

• Mark Ebersole (NVIDIA)
  OpenACC

Oct 10, 2012: SNUG TechTalk

• Scott Northrup (SciNet)
  SciNet BlueGene/Q

Oct 3, 2012: SciNet Developer Seminar

• Kit Barton (IBM)
  Performance Tuning with the IBM XL Compilers

Sep 12, 2012: SNUG TechTalk

• Jaime Pinto (SciNet)
  Science is Data

Jun 13, 2012: SNUG TechTalk

• Ramses van Zon (SciNet)
  Remote development on SciNet

May 9, 2012: SNUG TechTalk

• Jonathan Dursi (SciNet)
  ADIOS for Parallel IO: slides and source code

Apr 11, 2012: SNUG TechTalk

• Scott Northrup (SciNet)
  SciNet's Infiniband Network & MPI options

March 14, 2012: SNUG TechTalk

• Ramses van Zon (SciNet)
  Intel Math Kernel Library

February 8, 2012: SNUG TechTalk

• Jonathan Dursi (SciNet)
  MPI Tuning Parameters

January 11, 2012: SNUG TechTalk

• Chris Neale, Pawel Pomorski, Nilmadhab Chakrabarti, Emil F. Pai, Régis Pomès (Sick Children's Hospital)
  Kinetics of Hydrophobic Gating and Energetics of Magnesium Permeation in the Bacterial Divalent Cation Transport System CorA

December 14, 2011: SNUG TechTalk

• Scott Northrup (SciNet)
  Intel Compiler Optimizations

November 9, 2011: SNUG TechTalk

• Ramses van Zon (SciNet)
  How to deal with the new file system setup at SciNet

October 12, 2011: SNUG TechTalk

• Manuel Saldaña (Arch Es Computing)
  MPI as a programming model for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computers

September 14, 2011: SNUG TechTalk

• Jaime Pinto (SciNet)
  HPSS - SciNet's Storage Capacity Expansion

June 8, 2011: SNUG TechTalk

• Pierre de Buyl (CPTG Toronto/ULB Brussels)
  Fortran and Python

May 4, 2011: SNUG TechTalk

• Peter Colberg (CPTG, Toronto)
  Scripting HALMD with Lua and Luabind

April 12, 2011: SNUG TechTalk

• Rames van Zon (SciNet)
  User-Space Modules and Packages on SciNet

March 9, 2011: SNUG TechTalks

• Abdul Mroue (CITA, Toronto)
  Precessing Binary Black Hole Simulations
• Joachim Harnois-Déraps (CITA, Toronto)
  Weak Gravitational Lensing

February 9, 2011: SNUG TechTalk

• Seth Dworkin (Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, UoT)
  Computational Combustion: Toward the use of Sustainable and Alternative Fuels
• Ramses van Zon (SciNet)
  Job Monitoring on SciNet and Job Efficiency

January 12, 2011: SNUG TechTalks

• Sarah Rauscher (Regis Pomes group, Sick Kids, Toronto)
  MD Simulations of Biomolecular Systems
• Bijia Pang (Ue-Li Pen group, CITA, UoT)
  Black Hole Accretion on 17576 CPUs

December 8, 2010: SNUG TechTalk

• Jonathan Dursi (SciNet)
  Profiling and Tuning

November 10, 2010: SNUG TechTalk

• Ramses van Zon (SciNet)
  Debuggers & Parallel Debugging on SciNet - gdb, ddd, padb

October 13, 2010: SNUG TechTalk

• Scott Northrup (SciNet)
  Version Control

September 8, 2010: SNUG TechTalk

• Ramses van Zon (SciNet)
  The Parallel File System and I/O