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Upcoming Workshops

Software Carpentry @ Queen's

Due to popular demand, we are planning another SWC workshop on April 24-25, 2017. This will be a two-day workshop giving a thorough introduction to multiple aspects of scientific programming in the framework of Software Carpentry style lectures and hands-on labs:

• Programming with R, including visualization
• Using the bash shell on Unix systems
• Version control with GIT

The workshop will take place at Queen's University, on February 21-23, 2017.

2017 Compute Ontario HPC Summer School

The Compute Ontario Summer School on High Performance and Technical Computing is an annual educational event for students, post-docs and researchers in the areas of computational science. Jointly organized by SHARCNET (Ontario-West), SciNet(Ontario-Central) and the Centre for Advanced Computing (Ontario-East), attendees are provided with opportunities to learn and share knowledge and experience in high performance and technical computing. This all-week series of workshops will cover a range of high-performance computing related subjects. The Summer School will be conducted in three instalments for the different regions of Ontario:

• University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, May 29 - June 2, 2017 (SHARNET)
• University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, July 24 - 28, 2017 (SciNET)
• Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, July 31 - August 4, 2017 (CAC)

For details see Official web page, or our Local Page for the East Event at Queen's.

Recent Workshops

Software Carpentry @ Queen's

We conducted an SWC workshop during **Reading Week 2017**. This was a three-day workshop giving a thorough introduction to multiple aspects of scientific programming in the framework of Software Carpentry style lectures and hands-on labs:

• Programming with R, including visualization
• Using the bash shell on Unix systems
• Version control with GIT
• Advanced topics withe an emphasis on bioinformatics will be covered on Day3

The workshop took place at Queen's University, on February 21-23, 2017.

Software Carpentry @ The University of Ottawa

We also held another SWC workshop in the same week at the University of Ottawa. This was a two-day workshop giving a an introduction to scientific programming in the framework of Software Carpentry style lectures and hands-on labs:

• Programming with R, including visualization
• Using the bash shell on Unix systems
• Version control with GIT

The workshop took place at The University of Ottawa, on February 23-24, 2017.

2016 Compute Ontario HPC Summer School.

The Compute Ontario Summer School on High Performance and Technical Computing is an annual educational event for students, post-docs and researchers in the areas of computational science. Jointly organized by SHARCNET (Ontario-West), SciNet(Ontario-Central) and the Centre for Advance Computing (Ontario-East), attendees are provided with opportunities to learn and share knowledge and experience in high performance and technical computing. This all-week series of workshops will cover a range of high-performance computing related subjects. The Summer School was conducted in three instalments for the different regions of Ontario:

• McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, May 30 - June 3, 2016
• University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, July 11 - 15, 2016
• University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, August 8 - 12, 2016

For details see Official web page, or our Local Page for the East Event in Ottawa.

External Workshops

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