Announcements
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March 31, 2026
Amazon Research Awards – Spring 2026 Call for Proposals
The Amazon Research Awards (ARA) Spring 2026 Call for Proposals is now open. The ARA program provides unrestricted cash awards and AWS credits to support researchers advancing cutting-edge work across a variety of disciplines, including AI for Information Security, Agentic AI, and Robotics. …
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March 31, 2026
Planned ARC Access Management Portal Outage – April 14, 2026
The ARC Access Management Portal will be unavailable on April 14, 2026 from 9:00 am to 1:00 p.m. (PDT) due to planned work related to the UBC IT EduCloud migration. During this outage, users will be unable to: Submit new Sockeye or Chinook applications Update user access and…
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March 3, 2026
MATLAB Now Available on ARC OnDemand
Advanced Research Computing (ARC) is pleased to announce that MATLAB has been added to the suite of accessible tools on ARC OnDemand, joining RStudio, JupyterHub, and Virtual Desktop. Enhanced Accessibility Previously, MATLAB access on UBC Sockeye was limited to the command line. This…
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February 17, 2026
Upcoming UBC ARC Information and Training Sessions
UBC Advanced Research Computing (ARC) is pleased to offer a series of technical training and information sessions from February through April 2026. These sessions are designed to support the UBC research community with resource management, system onboarding, and cybersecurity best practices…
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February 10, 2026
Introducing the ARC Access Management Portal
ARC is excited to announce the launch of the ARC Access Management Portal! This new web-based platform streamlines the management of digital research infrastructure services, bringing resource applications and user management into a single interface.Virtual Information SessionAn upcoming…
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February 2, 2026
UBC ARC Supporting Researchers Affected by Global Supply Chain Issues
Current disruptions in the global hardware market, caused by surging demand for high-performance memory chips such as DDR5 memory modules, are impacting all manner of computing products, from large-memory computers and servers to GPUs and accelerators, to networking components and mobile devices…
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September 26, 2025
Getting Started with ARC Services: Training Sessions This Fall
UBC Advanced Research Computing is excited to offer a series of training sessions throughout October and November, including onboarding support for Sockeye users. These sessions are designed to help researchers get started, build foundational skills to key tools and services available to the…
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September 26, 2025
Stay Safe Online: Join Cybersecurity Awareness Month Events
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and to help build awareness, Privacy Matters @ UBC is hosting a month-long series of virtual and in-person events. Highlights include the Privacy Matters @ UBC Symposium on October 29.In addition, the Digital Research Alliance of Canada is offering a series…
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August 29, 2025
Security Threat Risk Assessment (STRA) Process Updated
The Advanced Research Computing, Research Cybersecurity and Compliance team is pleased to announce the availability of our improved Security Threat Risk Assessment (STRA) process. An STRA analyzes the security posture of a research project or service. For UBC research, it includes reviewing how…
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August 25, 2025
NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program Now Open
UBC Advanced Research Computing (ARC) is excited to share a new external funding opportunity for PhD students: NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program The NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program offers up to $60,000 USD per award to PhD students conducting research that advances accelerated…