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Upcoming Workshops

CAC Online Seminar Sessions (Fall 2017)

We are please to announce the CAC Online Seminar Series.

• November 2017:
• December 2017:

Recent Workshops

The 2017 Compute Ontario Summer School on Scientific and High Performance Computing (East)

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. Course material can be accessed through our Github page

Software Carpentry @ Queen's

Due to popular demand, we conducted yet another SWC workshop on April 24-25, 2017. This was 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 took place at Queen's University, on April 24-25, 2017.

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.

External Workshops

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