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ACENET would like to invite you to participate in our Spring Open House on May 10^th,2016 in the New Academic Building at the University of Kings College (corner of Oxford and Coburg). 

ACENET is a consortium of post-secondary institutions providing advanced research computing (ARC) resources, expertise and training to researchers and students throughout Atlantic Canada. Advanced computing refers to needs that are beyond the capabilities of a desktop computer, including high performance, big data, GPU and cloud computing, storage, and file transfer for terabytes of data.

The Open House will offer sessions for current and prospective advanced research computing users, both students and faculty, as well as anyone with an interest in ACENET. The schedule of sessions is provided below and will be a mix of training, presentations and discussions.  

9:00-11:00am - Workshop: Handling Big Data on the Cloud
Do you have lots of data? Come and learn how the Compute Canada cloud could help you. The first hour of this session will introduce you to the basics of the Compute Canada cloud, creating your first virtual machine (VM), and logging into it. The second hour will focus on how to set up and configure your collection of Virtual Machines to process and analyze your big data. Some simple use cases of such a cluster will also be discussed. Laptop required, but no cloud experience necessary. Compute Canada cloud account recommended.

11:00am-12:00pm – Student Research Showcase
Come and learn about some of the research being undertaken by our talented students. Presentations by students in a cross-section of disciplines, including ACENET Research Fellowship Program recipients.

A. 12:45-1:30pm – Presentation: Celebrating Our Researchers
This session will include presentations from researchers, a look at the advanced research computing landscape in Atlantic Canada, the research its enabling, new developments and the path forward.

B.  1:00-3:00pm - Workshop: Introduction to ACENET and Advanced Research Computing Basics
This session will cover the first two parts of ACENET’s Basics Training: Introduction to ACENET, and Introduction to the Unix Command Line. What is ACENET and what can it do for you? What hardware and software is available? How do you get an account? Once you've got an account, then what? How do you use a command line interface? This session is oriented to new users of ACENET systems. Laptop required.

A. 1:30-3:00pm – Open Forum Discussions
This will be an opportunity for researchers and students to discuss and table their views on issues of importance to the ACENET community, such as a regional data centre, the future of fellowships, skills training for undergraduate and graduate students, and ACENET going forward.

There is no charge for the event.  Participants can select the sessions they would like to attend. 

For futher information, please contact info@ace-net.ca or visit ACENET's website here.

We hope to see you there!

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