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12 Sep 9:00 am 10:30 amMSC1090 lecture 1The goal of this course is to prepare graduate students to perform scientific data analysis using the R programming language. Successful students will learn how to use statistical inference and machine-learning tools to gain insight into data sets, as well as be introduced to techniques and best practises for storing, managing and analyzing data. Topics will include: R programming, version control, modular programming, coding best practices, data analysis, machine learning and scientific visualization.Classes will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00-10:30am, in SS1085. Students willing to take the course as part of their graduate program must enrol through Acorn. This course is part of the IMS graduate program. SS1085 | MSC1090 - Fall 2023 |
13 Sep 1:00 pm 2:30 pmIntro to NiagaraIn about 90 minutes, learn how to use the SciNet systems Niagara and Mist, from securely logging in to running computations on the supercomputer. Experienced users may still pick up some valuable pointers.Format: Virtual Virtual | HPC105 - Sep 2023 |
14 Sep 9:00 am 10:30 amMSC1090 lecture 2The goal of this course is to prepare graduate students to perform scientific data analysis using the R programming language. Successful students will learn how to use statistical inference and machine-learning tools to gain insight into data sets, as well as be introduced to techniques and best practises for storing, managing and analyzing data. Topics will include: R programming, version control, modular programming, coding best practices, data analysis, machine learning and scientific visualization.Classes will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00-10:30am, in SS1085. Students willing to take the course as part of their graduate program must enrol through Acorn. This course is part of the IMS graduate program. SS1085 | MSC1090 - Fall 2023 |
18 Sep 1:00 pm 4:00 pmIntro to Linux Command LineWorking with many of the HPC systems (like those at SciNet) involves using the Linux/UNIX command line. This provides a very powerful interface, but it can be quite daunting for the uninitiated. In this half-day session, you can become initiated with this course which will cover basic commands. It could be a great boon for your productivity.Format: Virtual | SCMP101 - Sep 2023 |
19 Sep 9:00 am 10:30 amMSC1090 lecture 3The goal of this course is to prepare graduate students to perform scientific data analysis using the R programming language. Successful students will learn how to use statistical inference and machine-learning tools to gain insight into data sets, as well as be introduced to techniques and best practises for storing, managing and analyzing data. Topics will include: R programming, version control, modular programming, coding best practices, data analysis, machine learning and scientific visualization.Classes will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00-10:30am, in SS1085. Students willing to take the course as part of their graduate program must enrol through Acorn. This course is part of the IMS graduate program. SS1085 | MSC1090 - Fall 2023 |
21 Sep 9:00 am 10:30 amMSC1090 lecture 4The goal of this course is to prepare graduate students to perform scientific data analysis using the R programming language. Successful students will learn how to use statistical inference and machine-learning tools to gain insight into data sets, as well as be introduced to techniques and best practises for storing, managing and analyzing data. Topics will include: R programming, version control, modular programming, coding best practices, data analysis, machine learning and scientific visualization.Classes will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00-10:30am, in SS1085. Students willing to take the course as part of their graduate program must enrol through Acorn. This course is part of the IMS graduate program. SS1085 | MSC1090 - Fall 2023 |
25 Sep 12:30 pm 2:00 pmIntro to Supercomputing, session 1/3An introduction to basic concepts in High-Performance Computing (HPC). This is intended to be a high-level primer for those largely new to HPC. Topic will include motivation for HPC, available HPC resources, essential issues, problem characteristics as they apply to parallelism and a high-level overview of parallel programming models.Format: Virtual | HPC101 - Sep 2023 |
26 Sep 9:00 am 10:30 amMSC1090 lecture 5The goal of this course is to prepare graduate students to perform scientific data analysis using the R programming language. Successful students will learn how to use statistical inference and machine-learning tools to gain insight into data sets, as well as be introduced to techniques and best practises for storing, managing and analyzing data. Topics will include: R programming, version control, modular programming, coding best practices, data analysis, machine learning and scientific visualization.Classes will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00-10:30am, in SS1085. Students willing to take the course as part of their graduate program must enrol through Acorn. This course is part of the IMS graduate program. SS1085 | MSC1090 - Fall 2023 |
27 Sep 12:30 pm 2:00 pmIntro to Supercomputing, session 2/3An introduction to basic concepts in High-Performance Computing (HPC). This is intended to be a high-level primer for those largely new to HPC. Topic will include motivation for HPC, available HPC resources, essential issues, problem characteristics as they apply to parallelism and a high-level overview of parallel programming models.Format: Virtual | HPC101 - Sep 2023 |
28 Sep 9:00 am 10:30 amMSC1090 lecture 6The goal of this course is to prepare graduate students to perform scientific data analysis using the R programming language. Successful students will learn how to use statistical inference and machine-learning tools to gain insight into data sets, as well as be introduced to techniques and best practises for storing, managing and analyzing data. Topics will include: R programming, version control, modular programming, coding best practices, data analysis, machine learning and scientific visualization.Classes will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00-10:30am, in SS1085. Students willing to take the course as part of their graduate program must enrol through Acorn. This course is part of the IMS graduate program. SS1085 | MSC1090 - Fall 2023 |
29 Sep 12:30 pm 2:00 pmIntro to Supercomputing, session 3/3An introduction to basic concepts in High-Performance Computing (HPC). This is intended to be a high-level primer for those largely new to HPC. Topic will include motivation for HPC, available HPC resources, essential issues, problem characteristics as they apply to parallelism and a high-level overview of parallel programming models.Format: Virtual | HPC101 - Sep 2023 |
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3 Oct 9:00 am 10:30 amMSC1090 lecture 7The goal of this course is to prepare graduate students to perform scientific data analysis using the R programming language. Successful students will learn how to use statistical inference and machine-learning tools to gain insight into data sets, as well as be introduced to techniques and best practises for storing, managing and analyzing data. Topics will include: R programming, version control, modular programming, coding best practices, data analysis, machine learning and scientific visualization.Classes will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00-10:30am, in SS1085. Students willing to take the course as part of their graduate program must enrol through Acorn. This course is part of the IMS graduate program. SS1085 | MSC1090 - Fall 2023 |
3 Oct 1:00 pm 2:00 pmIntro to Programming SessionNew to programming? Learn the basics of programming using python in eight one-hour sessions over the course of four weeks. Sessions will consist of a mix of lectures and hands-on exercises.Format: In-person. Sessions will be recorded. SciNet Teaching Room | SCMP142 - Oct 2023 |
5 Oct 9:00 am 10:30 amMSC1090 lecture 8The goal of this course is to prepare graduate students to perform scientific data analysis using the R programming language. Successful students will learn how to use statistical inference and machine-learning tools to gain insight into data sets, as well as be introduced to techniques and best practises for storing, managing and analyzing data. Topics will include: R programming, version control, modular programming, coding best practices, data analysis, machine learning and scientific visualization.Classes will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00-10:30am, in SS1085. Students willing to take the course as part of their graduate program must enrol through Acorn. This course is part of the IMS graduate program. SS1085 | MSC1090 - Fall 2023 |
5 Oct 1:00 pm 2:00 pmIntro to Programming SessionNew to programming? Learn the basics of programming using python in eight one-hour sessions over the course of four weeks. Sessions will consist of a mix of lectures and hands-on exercises.Format: In-person. Sessions will be recorded. SciNet Teaching Room | SCMP142 - Oct 2023 |
10 Oct 9:00 am 10:30 amMSC1090 lecture 9The goal of this course is to prepare graduate students to perform scientific data analysis using the R programming language. Successful students will learn how to use statistical inference and machine-learning tools to gain insight into data sets, as well as be introduced to techniques and best practises for storing, managing and analyzing data. Topics will include: R programming, version control, modular programming, coding best practices, data analysis, machine learning and scientific visualization.Classes will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00-10:30am, in SS1085. Students willing to take the course as part of their graduate program must enrol through Acorn. This course is part of the IMS graduate program. SS1085 | MSC1090 - Fall 2023 |
10 Oct 1:00 pm 2:00 pmIntro to Programming SessionNew to programming? Learn the basics of programming using python in eight one-hour sessions over the course of four weeks. Sessions will consist of a mix of lectures and hands-on exercises.Format: In-person. Sessions will be recorded. SciNet Teaching Room | SCMP142 - Oct 2023 |
11 Oct 12:00 pm 1:00 pmCO Colloquium: High-Performance Computing in RIn the world where data has become extremely important, scientists require tools to process large volumes of data efficiently. R became increasingly popular in recent years for data processing, statistical analysis, and data science. In this session we will discuss tools that measure the performance of an R code, so that we can understand the nature of performance issues. We will also describe techniques that will improve the computational speed of R code. Basic knowledge of programming in R will be assumed. On-line | COCO - 6 Dec 2023 |
11 Oct 12:00 pm 1:00 pmCO Colloquium: High-Performance Computing in RIn the world where data has become extremely important, scientists require tools to process large volumes of data efficiently. R became increasingly popular in recent years for data processing, statistical analysis, and data science. In this session we will discuss tools that measure the performance of an R code, so that we can understand the nature of performance issues. We will also describe techniques that will improve the computational speed of R code. Basic knowledge of programming in R will be assumed. On-line | COCO - 25 Oct 2023 |
11 Oct 12:00 pm 1:00 pmCO Colloquium: High-Performance Computing in RIn the world where data has become extremely important, scientists require tools to process large volumes of data efficiently. R became increasingly popular in recent years for data processing, statistical analysis, and data science. In this session we will discuss tools that measure the performance of an R code, so that we can understand the nature of performance issues. We will also describe techniques that will improve the computational speed of R code. Basic knowledge of programming in R will be assumed. On-line | COCO - 11 Oct 2023 |
11 Oct 12:00 pm 1:00 pmCO Colloquium: High-Performance Computing in RIn the world where data has become extremely important, scientists require tools to process large volumes of data efficiently. R became increasingly popular in recent years for data processing, statistical analysis, and data science. In this session we will discuss tools that measure the performance of an R code, so that we can understand the nature of performance issues. We will also describe techniques that will improve the computational speed of R code. Basic knowledge of programming in R will be assumed. On-line | COCO 8 Nov 2023 |
11 Oct 12:00 pm 1:00 pmCO Colloquium: High-Performance Computing in RIn the world where data has become extremely important, scientists require tools to process large volumes of data efficiently. R became increasingly popular in recent years for data processing, statistical analysis, and data science. In this session we will discuss tools that measure the performance of an R code, so that we can understand the nature of performance issues. We will also describe techniques that will improve the computational speed of R code. Basic knowledge of programming in R will be assumed. On-line | COCO 22 Nov 2023 |
11 Oct 1:00 pm 2:30 pmIntro to NiagaraIn about 90 minutes, learn how to use the SciNet systems Niagara and Mist, from securely logging in to running computations on the supercomputer. Experienced users may still pick up some valuable pointers.Format: Virtual VIrtual | HPC105 - Oct 2023 |
12 Oct 9:00 am 10:30 amMSC1090 lecture 10The goal of this course is to prepare graduate students to perform scientific data analysis using the R programming language. Successful students will learn how to use statistical inference and machine-learning tools to gain insight into data sets, as well as be introduced to techniques and best practises for storing, managing and analyzing data. Topics will include: R programming, version control, modular programming, coding best practices, data analysis, machine learning and scientific visualization.Classes will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00-10:30am, in SS1085. Students willing to take the course as part of their graduate program must enrol through Acorn. This course is part of the IMS graduate program. SS1085 | MSC1090 - Fall 2023 |
12 Oct 1:00 pm 2:00 pmIntro to Programming SessionNew to programming? Learn the basics of programming using python in eight one-hour sessions over the course of four weeks. Sessions will consist of a mix of lectures and hands-on exercises.Format: In-person. Sessions will be recorded. SciNet Teaching Room | SCMP142 - Oct 2023 |
16 Oct 1:00 pm 4:00 pmIntro to ApptainerContainer computing is gradually changing the way researchers are developing, sharing, and running software applications. Apptainer (formerly called Singularity) is gaining popularity in HPC for its performance, ease of use, portability, and security. In this course, we will explore: what is a container, why use a container, and how to use and create one.Format: Virtual | SCMP161 - Oct 2023 |
17 Oct 9:00 am 10:30 amMSC1090 lecture 11The goal of this course is to prepare graduate students to perform scientific data analysis using the R programming language. Successful students will learn how to use statistical inference and machine-learning tools to gain insight into data sets, as well as be introduced to techniques and best practises for storing, managing and analyzing data. Topics will include: R programming, version control, modular programming, coding best practices, data analysis, machine learning and scientific visualization.Classes will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00-10:30am, in SS1085. Students willing to take the course as part of their graduate program must enrol through Acorn. This course is part of the IMS graduate program. SS1085 | MSC1090 - Fall 2023 |
17 Oct 1:00 pm 2:00 pmIntro to Programming SessionNew to programming? Learn the basics of programming using python in eight one-hour sessions over the course of four weeks. Sessions will consist of a mix of lectures and hands-on exercises.Format: In-person. Sessions will be recorded. SciNet Teaching Room | SCMP142 - Oct 2023 |
19 Oct 9:00 am 10:30 amMSC1090 lecture 12The goal of this course is to prepare graduate students to perform scientific data analysis using the R programming language. Successful students will learn how to use statistical inference and machine-learning tools to gain insight into data sets, as well as be introduced to techniques and best practises for storing, managing and analyzing data. Topics will include: R programming, version control, modular programming, coding best practices, data analysis, machine learning and scientific visualization.Classes will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00-10:30am, in SS1085. Students willing to take the course as part of their graduate program must enrol through Acorn. This course is part of the IMS graduate program. SS1085 | MSC1090 - Fall 2023 |
19 Oct 1:00 pm 2:00 pmIntro to Programming SessionNew to programming? Learn the basics of programming using python in eight one-hour sessions over the course of four weeks. Sessions will consist of a mix of lectures and hands-on exercises.Format: In-person. Sessions will be recorded. SciNet Teaching Room | SCMP142 - Oct 2023 |
24 Oct 9:00 am 10:30 amMSC1090 lecture 13The goal of this course is to prepare graduate students to perform scientific data analysis using the R programming language. Successful students will learn how to use statistical inference and machine-learning tools to gain insight into data sets, as well as be introduced to techniques and best practises for storing, managing and analyzing data. Topics will include: R programming, version control, modular programming, coding best practices, data analysis, machine learning and scientific visualization.Classes will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00-10:30am, in SS1085. Students willing to take the course as part of their graduate program must enrol through Acorn. This course is part of the IMS graduate program. SS1085 | MSC1090 - Fall 2023 |
24 Oct 1:00 pm 2:00 pmIntro to Programming SessionNew to programming? Learn the basics of programming using python in eight one-hour sessions over the course of four weeks. Sessions will consist of a mix of lectures and hands-on exercises.Format: In-person. Sessions will be recorded. SciNet Teaching Room | SCMP142 - Oct 2023 |
25 Oct 12:00 pm 1:00 pmCO Colloquium: SWIFT: A Modern Highly Parallel Gravity and Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics SolverNumerical simulations have become one of the key tools used by theorists in all the fields of astrophysics and cosmology. The development of modern tools that target the largest existing computing systems and exploit state-of-the-art numerical methods and algorithms is thus crucial. In this talk, we introduce the fully open-source highly-parallel, versatile, and modular coupled hydrodynamics, gravity, cosmology, and galaxy-formation code Swift. The software package exploits hybrid task-based parallelism, asynchronous communications, and domain-decomposition algorithms based on balancing the workload, rather than the data, to efficiently exploit modern high-performance computing cluster architectures. Gravity is solved for using a fast-multipole-method, optionally coupled to a particle mesh solver in Fourier space to handle periodic volumes. For gas evolution, multiple modern flavours of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics are implemented. Swift also evolves neutrinos using a state-of-the-art particle-based method. Two complementary networks of sub-grid models for galaxy formation as well as extensions to simulate planetary physics are also released as part of the code. An extensive set of output options, including snapshots, light-cones, power spectra, and a coupling to structure finders are also included. We describe the overall code architecture, summarize the consistency and accuracy tests that were performed, and demonstrate the excellent weak-scaling performance of the code using a representative cosmological hydrodynamical problem with ≈300 billion particles. The code is released to the community alongside extensive documentation for both users and developers, a large selection of example test problems, and a suite of tools to aid in the analysis of large simulations run with Swift. Virtual | COCO 8 Nov 2023 |
25 Oct 12:00 pm 1:00 pmCO Colloquium: SWIFT: A Modern Highly Parallel Gravity and Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics SolverNumerical simulations have become one of the key tools used by theorists in all the fields of astrophysics and cosmology. The development of modern tools that target the largest existing computing systems and exploit state-of-the-art numerical methods and algorithms is thus crucial. In this talk, we introduce the fully open-source highly-parallel, versatile, and modular coupled hydrodynamics, gravity, cosmology, and galaxy-formation code Swift. The software package exploits hybrid task-based parallelism, asynchronous communications, and domain-decomposition algorithms based on balancing the workload, rather than the data, to efficiently exploit modern high-performance computing cluster architectures. Gravity is solved for using a fast-multipole-method, optionally coupled to a particle mesh solver in Fourier space to handle periodic volumes. For gas evolution, multiple modern flavours of Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics are implemented. Swift also evolves neutrinos using a state-of-the-art particle-based method. Two complementary networks of sub-grid models for galaxy formation as well as extensions to simulate planetary physics are also released as part of the code. An extensive set of output options, including snapshots, light-cones, power spectra, and a coupling to structure finders are also included. We describe the overall code architecture, summarize the consistency and accuracy tests that were performed, and demonstrate the excellent weak-scaling performance of the code using a representative cosmological hydrodynamical problem with ≈300 billion particles. The code is released to the community alongside extensive documentation for both users and developers, a large selection of example test problems, and a suite of tools to aid in the analysis of large simulations run with Swift. Virtual | COCO - 25 Oct 2023 |
26 Oct 9:00 am 10:30 amMSC1090 lecture 14The goal of this course is to prepare graduate students to perform scientific data analysis using the R programming language. Successful students will learn how to use statistical inference and machine-learning tools to gain insight into data sets, as well as be introduced to techniques and best practises for storing, managing and analyzing data. Topics will include: R programming, version control, modular programming, coding best practices, data analysis, machine learning and scientific visualization.Classes will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00-10:30am, in SS1085. Students willing to take the course as part of their graduate program must enrol through Acorn. This course is part of the IMS graduate program. SS1085 | MSC1090 - Fall 2023 |
26 Oct 1:00 pm 2:00 pmIntro to Programming SessionNew to programming? Learn the basics of programming using python in eight one-hour sessions over the course of four weeks. Sessions will consist of a mix of lectures and hands-on exercises.Format: In-person. Sessions will be recorded. SciNet Teaching Room | SCMP142 - Oct 2023 |
27 Oct 2:27 pmPython Programming Exit Test opensThis is the exit test for the 2023 SciNet course "Introduction to Programming with Python". There are 17 questions. To pass, you have to answer 11 correctly. The test shouldn't take more than about 30 minutes to complete, but you can take up to an hour, at anytime up to Friday November 3rd, 2023. | SCMP142 - Oct 2023 |
30 Oct 12:30 pm 2:00 pmFrom Python to C++ 1/3C++ is a high level programming language that is extremely useful for scientific applications. The language has historically had a bad reputation, but modern C++ is much improved so that your code can be relatively short and elegant. In this workshop we will teach the basics of C++ for people who are familiar with the basics of programming, and we will especially compare and contrast C++ with Python (only the material covered in SCMP142 "Intro to Programming with Python" is required). Knowing multiple programming languages may be a useful skill: while Python is a wonderful programming language, execution speed is often a practical issue for pure Python applications. For applications where this is an issue, coding in C++ can significantly improve performance. As C++ can relatively easily be integrated in a Python project, it is also possible (and common) to code just the bottleneck in that language.Format: Virtual Virtual | SCMP241 - Nov 2023 |
31 Oct 9:00 am 10:30 amMSC1090 lecture 15The goal of this course is to prepare graduate students to perform scientific data analysis using the R programming language. Successful students will learn how to use statistical inference and machine-learning tools to gain insight into data sets, as well as be introduced to techniques and best practises for storing, managing and analyzing data. Topics will include: R programming, version control, modular programming, coding best practices, data analysis, machine learning and scientific visualization.Classes will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00-10:30am, in SS1085. Students willing to take the course as part of their graduate program must enrol through Acorn. This course is part of the IMS graduate program. SS1085 | MSC1090 - Fall 2023 |
| November,2023 | |
1 Nov 12:30 pm 2:00 pmFrom Python to C++ 2/3C++ is a high level programming language that is extremely useful for scientific applications. The language has historically had a bad reputation, but modern C++ is much improved so that your code can be relatively short and elegant. In this workshop we will teach the basics of C++ for people who are familiar with the basics of programming, and we will especially compare and contrast C++ with Python (only the material covered in SCMP142 "Intro to Programming with Python" is required). Knowing multiple programming languages may be a useful skill: while Python is a wonderful programming language, execution speed is often a practical issue for pure Python applications. For applications where this is an issue, coding in C++ can significantly improve performance. As C++ can relatively easily be integrated in a Python project, it is also possible (and common) to code just the bottleneck in that language.Format: Virtual Virtual | SCMP241 - Nov 2023 |
2 Nov 9:00 am 10:30 amMSC1090 lecture 16The goal of this course is to prepare graduate students to perform scientific data analysis using the R programming language. Successful students will learn how to use statistical inference and machine-learning tools to gain insight into data sets, as well as be introduced to techniques and best practises for storing, managing and analyzing data. Topics will include: R programming, version control, modular programming, coding best practices, data analysis, machine learning and scientific visualization.Classes will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00-10:30am, in SS1085. Students willing to take the course as part of their graduate program must enrol through Acorn. This course is part of the IMS graduate program. SS1085 | MSC1090 - Fall 2023 |
3 Nov 12:30 pm 2:00 pmFrom Python to C++ 3/3C++ is a high level programming language that is extremely useful for scientific applications. The language has historically had a bad reputation, but modern C++ is much improved so that your code can be relatively short and elegant. In this workshop we will teach the basics of C++ for people who are familiar with the basics of programming, and we will especially compare and contrast C++ with Python (only the material covered in SCMP142 "Intro to Programming with Python" is required). Knowing multiple programming languages may be a useful skill: while Python is a wonderful programming language, execution speed is often a practical issue for pure Python applications. For applications where this is an issue, coding in C++ can significantly improve performance. As C++ can relatively easily be integrated in a Python project, it is also possible (and common) to code just the bottleneck in that language.Format: Virtual Virtual | SCMP241 - Nov 2023 |
4 Nov 11:59 pmPython Programming Exit Test closesThis is the exit test for the 2023 SciNet course "Introduction to Programming with Python". There are 17 questions. To pass, you have to answer 11 correctly. The test shouldn't take more than about 30 minutes to complete, but you can take up to an hour, at anytime up to Friday November 3rd, 2023. | SCMP142 - Oct 2023 |
6 Nov 1:00 pm 4:00 pmLinux Shell ScriptingLearn how to write bash scripts, use environment variables, how to control process, and much more. Requires some Linux basic command line experience.Format: Virtual Virtual | SCMP201 - Nov 2023 |
7 Nov 9:00 am 10:30 amMSC1090 lecture 17The goal of this course is to prepare graduate students to perform scientific data analysis using the R programming language. Successful students will learn how to use statistical inference and machine-learning tools to gain insight into data sets, as well as be introduced to techniques and best practises for storing, managing and analyzing data. Topics will include: R programming, version control, modular programming, coding best practices, data analysis, machine learning and scientific visualization.Classes will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00-10:30am, in SS1085. Students willing to take the course as part of their graduate program must enrol through Acorn. This course is part of the IMS graduate program. SS1085 | MSC1090 - Fall 2023 |
8 Nov 12:00 pm 1:00 pmCO Colloquium: Rarray: Reference-Counted Multidimensional arrays for C++Compared to languages like Fortran and Python, the support for large multidimensional arrays in C++ is quite poor. There are many libraries trying to fill this deficiency, and there is hope at the horizon in the form of the planned C++23 and C++26 standards. But we would rather not wait for these, nor require C++ programmers to learn large frameworks, or worry about performance, when all they need is a multidimensional array. We will look at rarray, a header-only library requiring only a C++11 compliant compiler. This library provides reference-counted multidimensional arrays that are easy to use, work now, are efficient, and can interface with many scientific libraries. Virtual | COCO 8 Nov 2023 |
8 Nov 1:00 pm 2:30 pmIntro to NiagaraIn about 60 to 90 minutes, you will learn how to use the SciNet systems. Experienced users may still pick up some valuable pointers.Format: Virtual Virtual | HPC105 - Nov 2023 |
9 Nov 9:00 am 10:30 amMSC1090 lecture 18The goal of this course is to prepare graduate students to perform scientific data analysis using the R programming language. Successful students will learn how to use statistical inference and machine-learning tools to gain insight into data sets, as well as be introduced to techniques and best practises for storing, managing and analyzing data. Topics will include: R programming, version control, modular programming, coding best practices, data analysis, machine learning and scientific visualization.Classes will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00-10:30am, in SS1085. Students willing to take the course as part of their graduate program must enrol through Acorn. This course is part of the IMS graduate program. SS1085 | MSC1090 - Fall 2023 |
14 Nov 9:00 am 10:30 amMSC1090 lecture 19The goal of this course is to prepare graduate students to perform scientific data analysis using the R programming language. Successful students will learn how to use statistical inference and machine-learning tools to gain insight into data sets, as well as be introduced to techniques and best practises for storing, managing and analyzing data. Topics will include: R programming, version control, modular programming, coding best practices, data analysis, machine learning and scientific visualization.Classes will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00-10:30am, in SS1085. Students willing to take the course as part of their graduate program must enrol through Acorn. This course is part of the IMS graduate program. SS1085 | MSC1090 - Fall 2023 |
16 Nov 9:00 am 10:30 amMSC1090 lecture 20The goal of this course is to prepare graduate students to perform scientific data analysis using the R programming language. Successful students will learn how to use statistical inference and machine-learning tools to gain insight into data sets, as well as be introduced to techniques and best practises for storing, managing and analyzing data. Topics will include: R programming, version control, modular programming, coding best practices, data analysis, machine learning and scientific visualization.Classes will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00-10:30am, in SS1085. Students willing to take the course as part of their graduate program must enrol through Acorn. This course is part of the IMS graduate program. SS1085 | MSC1090 - Fall 2023 |
20 Nov 9:00 amIris data set problem is dueC++ is a high level programming language that is extremely useful for scientific applications. The language has historically had a bad reputation, but modern C++ is much improved so that your code can be relatively short and elegant. In this workshop we will teach the basics of C++ for people who are familiar with the basics of programming, and we will especially compare and contrast C++ with Python (only the material covered in SCMP142 "Intro to Programming with Python" is required). Knowing multiple programming languages may be a useful skill: while Python is a wonderful programming language, execution speed is often a practical issue for pure Python applications. For applications where this is an issue, coding in C++ can significantly improve performance. As C++ can relatively easily be integrated in a Python project, it is also possible (and common) to code just the bottleneck in that language.Format: Virtual | SCMP241 - Nov 2023 |
20 Nov 1:00 pm 4:00 pmGIT Version ControlUsing version control for your scripts, codes, documents, papers, and even data, allows you to track changes, keep backups, and facilitate collaboration. In this workshop, you will learn the basics of version control with the popular distributed version control software GIT. This workshop assumes that students have an understanding of basic Linux shell commands.Format: Virtual Virtual | DAT161 - Nov 2023 |
21 Nov 9:00 am 10:30 amMSC1090 lecture 21The goal of this course is to prepare graduate students to perform scientific data analysis using the R programming language. Successful students will learn how to use statistical inference and machine-learning tools to gain insight into data sets, as well as be introduced to techniques and best practises for storing, managing and analyzing data. Topics will include: R programming, version control, modular programming, coding best practices, data analysis, machine learning and scientific visualization.Classes will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00-10:30am, in SS1085. Students willing to take the course as part of their graduate program must enrol through Acorn. This course is part of the IMS graduate program. SS1085 | MSC1090 - Fall 2023 |
22 Nov 1:00 pm 2:00 pmCO Colloquium: Web Scraping in PythonThis week's colloquium: "Web Scraping in Python" by Yohai Meiron from SciNet. The Compute Ontario Colloquia are weekly Zoom presentations on Advanced Research Computing, High Performance Computing, Research Data Management, and Research Software topics, delivered by staff from three Compute Ontario consortia (CAC, SciNet, SHARCNET) and guest speakers. The colloquia are one hour long and include time for questions. No enrollment or registration is required. Most presentations are recorded and uploaded to the hosting consortium video channel. Virtual | COCO 22 Nov 2023 |
23 Nov 9:00 am 10:30 amMSC1090 lecture 22The goal of this course is to prepare graduate students to perform scientific data analysis using the R programming language. Successful students will learn how to use statistical inference and machine-learning tools to gain insight into data sets, as well as be introduced to techniques and best practises for storing, managing and analyzing data. Topics will include: R programming, version control, modular programming, coding best practices, data analysis, machine learning and scientific visualization.Classes will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00-10:30am, in SS1085. Students willing to take the course as part of their graduate program must enrol through Acorn. This course is part of the IMS graduate program. SS1085 | MSC1090 - Fall 2023 |
28 Nov 9:00 am 10:30 amMSC1090 lecture 23The goal of this course is to prepare graduate students to perform scientific data analysis using the R programming language. Successful students will learn how to use statistical inference and machine-learning tools to gain insight into data sets, as well as be introduced to techniques and best practises for storing, managing and analyzing data. Topics will include: R programming, version control, modular programming, coding best practices, data analysis, machine learning and scientific visualization.Classes will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00-10:30am, in SS1085. Students willing to take the course as part of their graduate program must enrol through Acorn. This course is part of the IMS graduate program. SS1085 | MSC1090 - Fall 2023 |
30 Nov 9:00 am 10:30 amMSC1090 lecture 24The goal of this course is to prepare graduate students to perform scientific data analysis using the R programming language. Successful students will learn how to use statistical inference and machine-learning tools to gain insight into data sets, as well as be introduced to techniques and best practises for storing, managing and analyzing data. Topics will include: R programming, version control, modular programming, coding best practices, data analysis, machine learning and scientific visualization.Classes will be held Tuesdays and Thursdays, 9:00-10:30am, in SS1085. Students willing to take the course as part of their graduate program must enrol through Acorn. This course is part of the IMS graduate program. SS1085 | MSC1090 - Fall 2023 |
| December,2023 | |
1 Dec 1:00 pm 4:00 pmIntro to Linux Command LineWorking with many of the HPC systems (like those at SciNet) involves using the Linux/UNIX command line. This provides a very powerful interface, but it can be quite daunting for the uninitiated. In this half-day session, you can become initiated with this coursse which will cover basic commands. It could be a great boon for your productivity.Format: Virtual Virtual | SCMP101 - Dec 2023 |
4 Dec 12:30 pm 2:00 pmIntro to MPI 1/3Learn the basics of Message Passing Interface (MPI) programming. Examples and exercises will be based on parallelization of common scientific computing problems.Format: Virtual Virtual | HPC123 - Dec 2023 |
6 Dec 12:30 pm 2:00 pmIntro to MPI 2/3Learn the basics of Message Passing Interface (MPI) programming. Examples and exercises will be based on parallelization of common scientific computing problems.Format: Virtual Virtual | HPC123 - Dec 2023 |
8 Dec 12:30 pm 2:00 pmIntro to MPI 3/3Learn the basics of Message Passing Interface (MPI) programming. Examples and exercises will be based on parallelization of common scientific computing problems.Format: Virtual Virtual | HPC123 - Dec 2023 |
13 Dec 1:00 pm 2:30 pmIntro to NiagaraIn about 90 minutes, learn how to use the SciNet systems Niagara and Mist, from securely logging in to running computations on the supercomputer. Experienced users may still pick up some valuable pointers.Format: Virtual Virtual | HPC105 - Dec 2023 |

