Announcements
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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…
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January 14, 2019
BCNET Conference - Call for Speaking Proposals
Due date for proposals: February 26th, 2019 BCNET is currently accepting speaking proposals for the BCNET 2019 conference in Vancouver from April 30th-May 19th, 2019. This is an excellect opportunity for speakers to grow professionally, share insights and engage with peers. All levels of staff…
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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
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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 The Pacific Northwest Data Curators meet-up will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia on Friday, 30 November at the SFU Harbour Centre Campus Vancouver. Similar to previous years, it will be a day of…
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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 Hi
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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