Announcements

Upcoming Call: Digital Research Alliance of Canada Announces RAC 2025 Competition

DRAC's annual Resource Allocation Competition is expected to open for submissions on September 24, 2024.

Matt Smith at PEARC 2024: Insights on Team Building within Advanced Research Computing

Matt Smith, Manager of Research Systems for ARC will be a plenary speaker at the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) Conference 2024.

New - UBC Information Security Compliance Checklist for Researchers

The ARC Security Compliance Checklist is a comprehensive self-assessment tool designed for UBC researchers. This checklist enables you to ensure that the tools used in your research adhere to UBC's Information Security Standards. It covers essential security compliance items and promotes best…

ARC 2024 Summer School Program 8-11 July, 2024

ARC will be holding its annual Summer School training between July 8 - 11, 2024. Sign up for sessions on HPC, cybersecurity and more!

ARC Upgrading Sockeye Operating System June 26 - 28, 2024

ARC will be upgrading the Sockeye System’s operating system June 26 -28, 2024. A scheduled three-day outage has been planned to facilitate the necessary work.

Inside UBC’s ARC team: Current endeavours and initiatives with Ryan Thomson

UBC IT Communications recently spoke with Ryan Thomson, Systems Architect for ARC regarding ARC's current initiatives and endeavours.

Safeguarding Science Webinars (hosted by Public Safety Canada's Research Security Centre)

Public Safety Canada's Research Security Centre will be hosting a series of 10 safeguarding science webinars at the dates and times identified in the table below.The webinars aim to assist participants to: access guidance and tools to strengthen security posture;understand best practices to…

Apply Any Time for UBC ARC Chinook Storage Allocations

Registration Now Open for Advanced Research Computing Boot Camps

UBC Advanced Research Computing (ARC) is excited to announce our coming Research Computing Bootcamp 2023. This boot camp aims to introduce researchers to high-performance computing using UBC's ARC Sockeye platform, as well as educate current users on how to use the newly implemented Slurm job…

Drop-in Consultation Available for Researchers Applying to The Alliance Resource Allocation Competition

The Alliance has two competitions that can help you access resources needed to conduct your research.The competitions opened on September 26 and have a final deadline to apply of November 7, 2023.The Resources for Research Group (RRG) competition is for researchers who need compute, storage…