Announcements
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May 7, 2021
UBC ARC Career Opportunities: Sensitive Research Security Analyst I
Come join our team! UBC Advanced Research Computing (ARC) is hiring for the following roles.
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March 25, 2021
Canada’s research funding agencies launch Research Data Management (RDM) policy
The Tri-Agency Research Data Management (RDM) Policy has now been launched. The agencies (SSHRC, NSERC and CIHR) plan to implement the policy incrementally through an ongoing engagement process, with notable dates highlighted below.
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January 25, 2021
Dr. Muhammad Abdul-Mageed: Building generative AI language models
“Some of the work we’ve been able to do wouldn't even be possible without access to Sockeye. I hope UBC continues to invest in more digital research infrastruct
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May 14, 2020
Webinar: Sole Stacking - Accessing the Compute Canada software stack outside of traditional HPC
Presenter: Ken Bigelow, Systems Administrator with the Advanced Research Computing group at UBC Topic: Sole Stacking – Accessing the Compute Canada software stack outside of traditional HPC Time: May 19, 2020 09:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting
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May 1, 2020
UBC Library partners with UBC ARC to launch an open-source geospatial data discovery tool
The UBC Library Research Commons has launched Geodisy, an open-source tool that allows users to search online for Canadian research data through map-based discovery.
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April 16, 2020
UBC Expands IBM SPSS and NVivo Licensing
UBC IT has announced changes to existing SPSS and NViVo licensing to accommodate a changing work environment as a result of recent events. Please see below for more details on the enhanced software offerings:
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April 6, 2020
COVID-19 research involving high-performance computing (HPC)
UBC Advanced Research Computing will provide expedited support for the acquisition and use of HPC resources, including public cloud, for research studies that meet the following criteria:
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January 21, 2020
Enhancing Support for Advanced Research Computing
UBC has further expanded its support of the research community with an additional capital investment of $10.6 million in advanced research computing infrastructure.
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June 24, 2019
Welcome Advanced Research Computing Summer School participants!
The 3rd Annual Research Computing Summer School co-hosted by UBC Advanced Research Computing (ARC) and WestGrid kicks off today. We can’t wait to welcome everyone to UBC!