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Upcoming Workshops

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 will be conducted in three instalments for the different regions of Ontario:

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

For details and registration, go to the Official web page, or check out our Local Page for the East Event in Ottawa.

Recent Workshops

Software Carpentry @ Queen's

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:

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

The workshop took place at Queen's University, Feb 17-19, 2016 and was the first such event at Queen's.

The third day content had an emphasis on biology applications.

External Workshops

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