Announcements

Dr. Phillip Richmond: Using High-Performance Computing to diagnose diseases

“When it comes to diagnosing, and sometimes treating, rare genetic diseases, it takes a multidisciplinary team. It’s rewarding to know that I can help patients

Dr. Anthony Wachs: Combining fluid dynamics and high-performance computing

“High-performance computing is evolving so fast, and this determines what we can do in research. This is extremely exciting. I couldn’t have anticipated it.” 

BCNET and UBC ARC Speeding up Discoveries of the Universe

"Before this link, it really limited us. Even things we wanted to do on-site, we were very limited,” said Don Wiebe, UBC research associate, physics and astrono

UBC's Campus as a Living Lab: Advanced Research Computing (Blog)

Read the UBC Advanced Research Computing blog post here.  UBC’s Campus as a Living Lab (CLL) Fund Competition (2021-22) is now open. Proposals are invited from UBC Faculty & Staff to co-develop innovative, impactful and collaborative ‘living lab’ projects on campus…

ARC in the News: AI technology enables screening of billions of compounds to identify potential COVID-19 drugs

Ever wonder how Artificial Intelligence can help in the race to develop COVID-19 drugs? An interdisciplinary research team led by Dr. Art Cherkasov, Professor,

WestGrid Training Modules 2021

WestGrid Summer School is back in a new format - "WestGrid Training Modules 2021". Starting April 27 with 7 different modules.  Course List: Bash command line Introduction to HPC Version control with Git  Basics of Python  Introductory Julia  Parallel…

UBC ARC Career Opportunities: Sensitive Research Security Analyst I

Come join our team!  UBC Advanced Research Computing (ARC) is hiring for the following roles.   Sensitive Research Security Analyst I: The UBC Advanced Research Computing, Sensitive Research Team is hiring a cybersecurity analyst to join our team of privacy and security…

Call for Applications to ARC Sockeye Priority Allocation

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. Institutional strategies: By March 1, 2023, research…

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