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SHARCNET is pleased to announce the addition of Conestoga College as its newest academic partner.

With 18 partner organizations, SHARCNET is the largest HPC consortium in Canada, with a long history of cooperation and collaboration. SHARCNET is highly regarded for its support and service to a broad and diverse research community, especially on the training side, which is what attracted Conestoga to us.

“Conestoga is a welcome addition to the HPC community and furthers our commitment to engage the college sector” says Dan Sinai, Associate Vice President, Research at Western University and SHARCNET Board Chair.

We look forward to working more closely with Conestoga and exploring opportunities for collaboration.

From June 25 to 27, 2014, Canadian and international researchers across six disciplines will be talking about their discoveries using High Performance Computing (HPC) as part of HPCS 2014. Co‐hosted this year by Compute Canada and its Atlantic Canadian regional partner, ACEnet, the annual High Performance Computing Symposium (HPCS) is Canada’s largest national forum for discussing advanced computing applications in research. This year’s symposium is being held at the Westin Nova Scotian in Halifax, NS.

Six conference streams are planned under the umbrella theme of HPC Serving Society. These are:

• Computational Chemistry
• Computational Materials Chemistry
• Big Data & Analytics; Bioinformatics
• Ocean Modelling & Climate Change
• Oil & Gas Reservoir Modelling

Plenary speakers include:

• Gilbert Brunet from the UK Meteorological Office (Ocean Modelling & Climate Change)
• Frank Dehne and Ashkan Golshani from Carleton University (Bioinformatics)
• Axel Becke from Dalhousie University (Computational Chemistry)
• Nikolas Provatas from McGill University (Computational Materials Chemistry)
• K. Sampath from Hibernia Management & Development (Oil & Gas Reservoir Modelling)

These plenaries will be followed by parallel sessions that include Invited Talks by key speakers, Contributed Talks that have been selected through a submission process, several sessions around data visualization rooms, and a Technology & Infrastructure section. A full conference schedule is now online.

HPCS 2014 will also include a panel discussion by Canada’s Digital Infrastructure Leadership Council, a session on HPC usage in industry, a Poster Session and a TECH Lounge, where industry and career-­‐seekers can mingle. Two days of technical tutorials for HPC practitioners will precede the main conference.

The conference is made possible through the support of a number of sponsors, including Data Direct Networks, IBM, HP, Xyratex, CANARIE, and Bell Aliant.

Full details of the conference, as well as speaker bios, topics and other information can be found on the HPCS 2014 website at http://2014.hpcs.ca. Follow HPCS 2014 on Twitter at @HPCS2014. More info

We are pleased to announce the 2014 Ontario Summer School on High Performance Computing – West, May 26-30 @ University of Waterloo. Register Now.

The Summer School on High Performance and Technical Computing is an annual educational event for students, postdocs and researchers in the areas of computational science. Jointly organized by SHARCNET (Ontario-West), SciNet (Ontario-Central) and HPCVL (Ontario-East), attendees are provided with opportunities to learn and share knowledge and experience in high performance and technical computing on platforms with the latest technologies. Five full days of summer school offers intensive courses on a number of selected subjects, including:

• Programming distributed systems using message passing;
• Programming shared memory systems with threads;
• Programming GP GPUs
• Parallel computing: theory and practice
• Debugging and profiling
• Using packages and libraries for scientific and engineering computing
• Visualization

Registration is FREE however, space is limited. If you are registered and later you find you are unable to attend the classes you have signed up for, please let us know, so that we can give the space to others who need it.

Contact: Jemmy Hu, SHARCNET, University of Waterloo

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
Theme: HPC Serving Society

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.

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.