The Portal Newsletter

SciNet produces an annual newsletter, The Portal.   This is where we feature research initiatives that have been made possible using our systems, introduce staff, & highlight interesting events and outreach in which SciNet has participated over the year.

SciNet Training 2023/2024

The following training events will be offered by SciNet in 2023/2024. Most events take place online, others are in-person in our teaching room at the SciNet offices on the St. George Campus of the University of Toronto (https://www.scinethpc.ca/contact-us/). Many of the events are recorded and posted afterwards on the sites listed below. All events listed […]
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SciNet Training 2022/2023

The following training events will be offered by SciNet in 2022/2023. Some events take place online, others are in-person in out teaching room at the SciNet offices on the St. George Campus of the University of Toronto (https://www.scinethpc.ca/contact-us/). The in-person events are usually also broadcasted and recorded. All times below are in Eastern Time. All events […]
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SciNet News November 2019

SUMMARY Scheduled maintenance downtime was postponed, now on November 15th. Learn about the upcoming Niagara expansion at the SciNet User Group Meeting on November 13. Training and education program continues with “Numerical Computing with Python”, “GPU Programming with CUDA”, “Intro to Niagara” and “Intro to Linux” this month. Details can be found below and are […]
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SciNet News October 2019

SUMMARY The Resource Allocation Competition is open. Scheduled maintenance downtime on October 16th. Training and education program continues. UofT Visualization Discussion Group hosted at SciNet. Details can be found below and are also available on the SciNet education website courses.scinet.utoronto.ca and the SciNet wiki docs.scinet.utoronto.ca. SYSTEM CHANGES Research groups that require more computational or storage […]
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SciNet News September 2019

SUMMARY Announcing SciNet’s 2018-2019 Training and Education Schedule on Scientific Computing, High Performance Computing and Data Science. To acknowlegde the Niagara supercomputer in your publications, please cite our recent PEARC19 paper: M Ponce, R van Zon, S Northrup, D Gruner, J Chen, F Ertinaz, A Fedoseev, L Groer, F Mao, B C Mundim, M Nolta, […]
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SciNet News June 2019

Summary Increased security of the SciNet data centre Decommissioning of the SOSCIP BlueGene/Q at the end of June. Announcement of several training opportunities. Details can be found below and are also available on the SciNet education website https://courses.scinet.utoronto.ca and the SciNet wiki https://docs.scinet.utoronto.ca. System News The security level of the data centre has been increased […]
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