Press Releases
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(posted Wednesday March 12 2014, 10:20)
SHARCNET is currently seeking a High Performance Technical Computing Consultant based out of Windsor. As part of our mission to enable excellent research, we require advanced technical consultants to support the user community in leveraging HPC infrastructure for forefront research. This position will primarily be assisting users at the University of Windsor. As part of the technical team reporting to the Technical Manager, HPTC consultants provide organizational focus for, and development of, the local user community with specific responsibilities. To view the job posting, click here. Interested candidates may apply in confidence by March 21, 2014 to careers@sharcnet.ca. |
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(posted Thursday March 06 2014, 09:36)
Don’t miss Canada’s premier advanced computing event for exchanging ideas, tools, new discoveries, and successes in computational research. HPCS 2014 will be held at the Westin Nova Scotian on the waterfront in beautiful Halifax, NS. The conference runs from June 25 to 27, with technical workshops for HPC practitioners on June 23 and 24. Register now for early bird discounts! Please note: If you are a Compute Canada or regional consortia staff member, please contact info@hpcs.ca for registration instructions. HPCS 2014 Call for Submissions Now Open HPCS 2014 is accepting submissions for contributed talks and posters relating to the theme, and about the application and practice of high performance and advanced computing. Submissions are due by April 30. For more information on the conference, please visit the HPCS 2014 website. |
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(posted Friday February 14 2014, 13:51)
Planning for HPC Summer School 2014 is underway. Summer School (west) which will be held at the University of Waterloo, May 26-30th. A long-running event for SHARCNET, Summer School was introduced to users over a decade ago and it continues to be well received. The program consists of hands-on courses covering introductory and advanced HPC and programming topics, software best practices, debugging and much more. Training will include both in-class lectures and computer labs with exercises on programming distributed and shared memory systems, cell systems and GPGPUs. Summer School is now an Ontario-wide event which is organized in partnership with SciNet and HPCVL. The dates for Summer School central and east will be posted soon, along with a website for registration. |
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(posted Friday February 14 2014, 13:44)
Join us on May 7th for SHARCNET’s Research Day to be held at Perimeter Institute in Waterloo. The keynote speaker will be Saul Teukolsky of the Astronomy Department at Cornell University. Research Day is SHARCNET’s annual outreach event where professors, postdocs and graduate students share individual experiences and insights on advancing research by using HPC resources. For more information, including registration, please visit the event website. |
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(posted Friday February 14 2014, 14:20)
Compute Canada invites students and researchers at Canadian post-secondary institutions to apply for one of 10 spots allocated to Canada for the fifth International Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences, to be held June 1-6, 2014, in Budapest, Hungary. The workshop is aimed primarily at graduate students or postdocs; however, junior faculty or advanced undergraduates are also welcome to apply. Attendees will be expected to have some experience in HPC parallel programming (for instance, MPI, OpenMP, or CUDA/OpenCL), preferably on software used in successful research projects, and must be at least 18 years of age at time of application. Attendees from all disciplines are invited to participate. The deadline for applications is March 9th. Notification of acceptance will be made in early April. |
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(posted Friday December 20 2013, 14:32)
SHARCNET is pleased to release its latest newsletter issue in a completely online format. We have included a number of articles which highlight SHARCNET services and the exciting research projects we support. Upcoming key events are also noted, including Research Day which will be held on May 7, 2014 at Perimeter Institute. Continue to check the SHARCNET website for information on upcoming events and activities, or watch for our monthly community update which is emailed to our general mailing list and posted on our web portal. We would love to hear from you! If you have an interesting news item or research story for SHARCNET to highlight, please contact admin@sharcnet.ca. |
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(posted Tuesday November 26 2013, 13:18)
Compute Canada (CC) is undertaking an extensive consultation process to develop a strategic plan to direct its activities over the next five years, 2014 – 2019. There are many ways to participate in this national consultation. Starting December 4, CC will be having a series of Town Hall meetings across Canada, in person and online, with a presentation and group discussions. Also, CC will provide an executive summary and an overview of a draft strategic plan that you can review before the Town Hall Meetings. To review the schedule of Town Hall and online consultation sessions, or for more information on the overall consultation and strategic planning processes, click here. |
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(posted Monday November 04 2013, 20:15)
Dr. Michael A. Bauer has been named SHARCNET’s Interim Scientific Director. Dr. Bauer is a long-standing, respected member of the HPC community, who has participated on numerous committees committed to the strategic evolution of the HPC landscape. He is one of the founding members of SHARCNET and has served as its Associate Director for a number of years. As a member of the SHARCNET management team, Dr. Bauer has played a key role in strategic planning and decision making, driving initiatives around engaging industry and student outreach. Dr. Bauer is a Professor of Computer Science at The University of Western Ontario, where he has also held several administrative positions, including Chair of the Computer Science Department and Associate Vice-President, Information Technology Services. Dr. Bauer is also an active researcher working in the areas of distributed and parallel computing, cloud computing and data analytics. “With his extensive knowledge and leadership experience, and strong ties to both the academic and industry sectors, we have every confidence in his ability to lead SHARCNET through the evolving HPC landscape in Ontario and Canada” says Dan Sinai, Associate Vice President, Research at Western University and SHARCNET’s new Board Chair. |