diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index 9c724e82..02e744d2 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -8,4 +8,3 @@ homepage-image-sectionbreak.png .jekyll-cache serve.sh hidden -2024-12-20-upcoming-training-winter-spring-2025.md diff --git a/_posts/design/2024-12-20-upcoming-training-winter-spring-2025.md b/_posts/design/2024-12-20-upcoming-training-winter-spring-2025.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..2793f719 --- /dev/null +++ b/_posts/design/2024-12-20-upcoming-training-winter-spring-2025.md @@ -0,0 +1,179 @@ +--- +layout: page +# +# Content +# +subheadline: "all training" +title: "Events for winter/spring 2025" +teaser: "" +categories: + - events +tags: + - events +# +# Styling +# +header: no +image: + title: juliaSet.png + thumb: juliaSet.png + homepage: + caption: Julia set rendered with Chapel's Image library + caption_url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_set +mediaplayer: true +--- + + + +To receive future news and emails about our training events, please [subscribe here](/contact). + + + + + + + + +[Table of Contents](#table-of-contents): +  +[Webinars](#webinars) +• [Online courses](#online-courses) +• [Other local bootcamps and workshops](#bootcamps) + +• [In-person schools](#schools) + + + + + + + +## Webinars + + + + +The 2025 winter/spring webinars are jointly presented by SFU's Research Computing Group (RCG) and UBC's +Advanced Research Computing (ARC). These webinars are held every second Tuesday at 10:00am Pacific (Victoria, +Vancouver), 11:00am Mountain (Edmonton, Calgary), and noon Central (Saskatoon, Winnipeg). + + + + + + + + + + + +| DATE | TOPIC | SPEAKER | +| ------------- | --------------- | ----------------- | +| Jan-14 | High-level parallel stencil computations on CPUs and GPUs in Julia | Alex Razoumov | +| Jan-28 | Modern shell utilities | Marie-Hélène Burle | +| Feb-11 | Running parallel Ray workflows across multiple cluster nodes | Alex Razoumov | +| Feb-25 | Bayesian modelling with JAX | Marie-Hélène Burle | +| Mar-11 | TBA | UBC speaker | +| Mar-25 | TBA | UBC speaker | +| Apr-08 | TBA | UBC speaker | +| Apr-22 | TBA | UBC speaker | +| May-06 | TBD | Marie-Hélène Burle | +| May-20 | Introduction to Fir cluster | Alex Razoumov | + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +## Online courses + +SFU Research Computing offers weekly online sessions on advanced research computing. These sessions take place +every Thursday from 10am to noon Pacific and are open to all academic researchers across Canada. Most courses +span 2 weeks, although some courses may be shorter or longer. + +Please note that these sessions are not recorded, as we want to encourage attendance and live interaction, and +we are planning to repeat the most popular / introductory sessions throughout the year. + + + + + + +| COURSE | DATES | INSTRUCTOR | +| ------------- | --------------- | ----------------- | +| Introductory bash | Jan-16, Jan-23 | Marie-Hélène Burle | +| Introduction to HPC | Jan-30, Feb-06, Feb-13 | Alex Razoumov | +| Parallel R | Feb-27, Mar-06 | Marie-Hélène Burle | +| Short visualization course (TBD) | Mar-13 | Alex Razoumov | +| Parallel Julia | Mar-20, Mar-27 | Alex Razoumov | +| ML course on an interesting complete problem with model training | Apr-03, Apr-10, Apr-17 | Marie-Hélène Burle | +| HPC Python | Apr-24, May-01, May-08 | Alex Razoumov | +| Parallel Chapel | May-15, May-22 | Alex Razoumov | + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +## Other local bootcamps and workshops + +We will be adding workshops here as they are announced at other Western Canadian universities. + +| DATE | EVENT | VENUE | + + + + + + + + + + +## In-person schools + +Typically at the end of a term we organize a longer, in-person research computing school at SFU that is open +to all students, postdocs, faculty and staff. We will add more information here. + + + + + + + +--- + +
+As always, we welcome requests for other training topics and events. Please email suggestions to `training at +westdri dot ca`. + + diff --git a/images/juliaSet.png b/images/juliaSet.png new file mode 100644 index 00000000..310872fb Binary files /dev/null and b/images/juliaSet.png differ