Announcements
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January 29, 2019
WestGrid Training Webinars for Spring/Summer 2019
WestGrid runs training activities year-round, ranging from online webinars to in-person workshops. Their bi-weekly training webinars take place every second Wednesday at 10am PST. Please click the linked titles below for more information about each workshop and to register online.
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January 28, 2019
Call for Proposals: CANHEIT-ARC 2019 (Research and IT)
The CANHEIT-ARC 2019 conference, Canada’s premier conference for higher education IT leaders and advanced research computing (ARC) experts, is seeking session proposals in a range of topics in research and higher ed trends and technologies.
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January 14, 2019
BCNET Conference - Call for Speaking Proposals
Due date for proposals: February 26th, 2019
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November 28, 2018
UBC Library Awarded CANARIE Research Data Management Funding
UBC library will use the funding from CANARIE to lead a project to build the Federated Geospatial Data Discovery for Canada, with collaborative support from UBC Advanced Research Computing and others.
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November 15, 2018
2018 Pacific Northwest Data Curators (PNWDC) Meet-up
When: Friday, November 30th, 2018 Where: SFU Harbour Centre, Vancouver, BC
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October 5, 2018
WestGrid Fall Webinars ( Tips for using Compute Canada, Intro to the cloud, Tools for data analysis & more!)
WestGrid's fall webinar series is back and offering tutorials on a variety of topics in advanced research computing (ARC) -- from introductory sessions to more advanced and specialized topics. University faculty, grad students, and staff from all disciplines are invited to attend these sessions.
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September 24, 2018
Compute Canada RAC 2019 Opens Sept. 27th
Compute Canada has announced the opening of the Resource Allocation Competition (RAC) 2019. The RAC is open to researchers who require substantial amounts of High Performance Computing (HPC) and/or Cloud Computing resources. UBC Advanced Research Computing (ARC) is available to consult in this regard.
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September 17, 2018
Capital Investment in advanced research computing infrastructure
To address immediate needs surrounding data storage and computing power, and issues surrounding health data access, UBC is making a $7.9m capital investment in advanced research computing infrastructure.
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August 31, 2018
WestGrid Community Town Hall
When: Friday, September 14th ( 9-10 am PDT // 10-11 am MDT/CST // 11 am-12 pm CDT) Where: Online
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August 2, 2018
Next Data Cafe - Music as Text: Search and Analysis of Digital Musical Scores
When: Wednesday, August 15th, 2018 at 10.00AM - 11.00AMWhere: RM 256-Chilcotin Boardroom, IKBLC REGISTER HERE