Welcome Advanced Research Computing Summer School participants!

June 24, 2019


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. Courses will explore topics such as bash scripting, next-gen sequencing, high-performance computing, scientific visualization and more. The Summer School takes place June 24 to 27 at UBC Point Grey Campus. 

Join the live webstream

Watch one of the live streams to join in. The broadcast will begin each day at 9 a.m. PT.

To view the program and confirm which sessions are happening when, visit the event website

Follow us

For live updates, you can also follow @UBCITNews and @UBC_ARC on Twitter.

Thank you to everyone involved for making this event a success.



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