Announcements
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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. Institutional strategies: By March 1, 2023, research…
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January 25, 2021Dr. 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 https:/…
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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. After UBC Library was named the successful recipient for the Research Data Management (RDM) funding call from …
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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: SPSS IBM SPSS Statistics is an advanced statistical package software for…
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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: Research involves drug, treatments, or medical devices that may be effective in treating or diagnosing…
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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. This investment increases UBC’s capacity to support UBC researchers in all disciplines to meet immediate needs…
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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! This year’s event will mark the largest Summer School on record with more than 230 participants…
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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. Videoconference…
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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. The event is co-hosted this year by Compute…