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Monthly (virtual) user meeting at SciNet with user discussion and a TechTalk. The topic of 10 March 2021 is the SciNet at Scale event.

Monthly user meeting at SciNet, now virtual, with user discussion and a TechTalk. The topic on 11 Nov 2020 is Modern C++.

Monthly user meeting at SciNet, now virtual, with user discussion and a TechTalk. The topic on 16th Sept 2020 will be Security Best Practices.

Monthly user meeting at SciNet with pizza, a techtalk on the coming Niagara expansion and user discussion.

Monthly user meeting at SciNet with pizza, a techtalk and user discussion on No Conda: Using Python, Installing Packages, and Accessing Jupyter Notebooks on Niagara.

Monthly user meeting at SciNet with pizza, a techtalk and user discussion: Bayesian Model-Based Clustering Approaches for Discrete-Valued Gene Expression Data by Anjali Silva. Abstract: Unsupervised classification or clustering uses no a priori knowledge of the labels of the observations in the process of categorizing data. This presentation focuses on research surrounding machine learning of discrete-valued gene expression datasets using clustering, with the aim of identifying gene co-expression networks. Specifically, a number of topics surrounding the use of mixture models and Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods for clustering of discrete data from high-throughput transcriptome sequencing technologies will be presented. After outlining current challenges and gaps in research with respect to clustering approaches, several mixture model-based clustering methods will be presented. Significance, innovation, limitations and a number of future directions stemming from this research will be discussed.

Pizza and presentation by PhD student Stephanie Penk: Making a modeler; on the use of supercomputers in ecological systems.

George Stein (Dept. of Astronomy-UofT, CITA) Machine learning cosmic structure formation + pizza Abstract: In modern astrophysics and cosmology, accurate simulations of the large scale structure of the universe are necessary. Usually, this is accomplished by so called N-body simulations, which calculate the full gravitational collapse of a region of the universe over its 14 billion year history. Instead of calculating this costly gravitational evolution, we trained a three-dimensional deep Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) to identify dark matter proto-haloes directly from the cosmological initial conditions, and showed that a CNN of this type can be a viable alternative in some cases. In this talk I will discuss current cosmological simulations and the invasion of machine learning techniques, with a focus on our work. For more information see https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.04537 Please register for pizza purposes!

pizza, user discussion, and a techtalk (TBA)

Pizza, user discussion and a talk about the details of the new Niagara supercomputer and its deployment at SciNet this fall. - 60 minutes

Pizza, user discussion, and a tech talk:
ChIP-Seq analysis of the Interactive Bromodomain 1 protein (Ibd1) in Tetrahymena thermophila, by PhD student Alejandro Saettone (Ryerson University)

pizza, user discussion, and a techtalk

pizza, user discussion, and a techtalk by Ricardo Harripaul on Computationally Mapping Autosomal Recessive Intellectual Disability

pizza, user discussion, and a tech talk about SciNet's new Knights Landing KNL nodes

This meeting includes: pizza, user discussion, and a techtalk by Michael Wong on C++17.

Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered: Parallelism and Memory Models -- AJ Guillon (Yetiware Inc.) Without a well-defined memory model, the correct execution of a parallel program is reduced to superstition and luck. The development of modern memory models required a major industry effort that spanned computer processor architects, compiler teams, and language designers to produce the models of C++11 and OpenCL 2.0. The final result is so bewildering that only a few experts truly understand it, let alone how to use it. This talk will explain why this effort was required, why the final result is so hard to understand, and what's next. This meeting includes: pizza, user discussion, and a techtalk (TBD).

This meeting includes: pizza, user discussion, and a techtalk Scientific Visualization, an overview of VisIt.

This meeting includes: pizza, user discussion, and a techtalk (TBA)

SNUG meetings include: pizza, user discussion and a techtalk, this time about Research Data Management: Developments and Requirements

TechTalk, Pizza, User Discussion

TechTalk: Job and Queue Management at SciNet. Also: pizza, user discussion, feedback.

TechTalk on Modern CUDA features. Also: pizza, user discussion, feedback.

TechTalk: Globus online, pizza, user discussion, feedback.

TechTalk: Keep inventory of your data on different file systems with ISH, pizza, user discussion, feedback.

TechTalk: Intel Xeon Phi, pizza, user discussion, feedback.

The SciNet Users Group (SNUG) meetings are every month on the second Wednesday, and involve pizza, user discussion, feedback, and a half-hour talk on topics or technologies of interest to the SciNet community

The SciNet Users Group (SNUG) meetings are every month on the second Wednesday, and involve pizza, user discussion, feedback, and a half-hour talk on topics or technologies of interest to the SciNet community

The SciNet Users Group (SNUG) meetings are every month on the second Wednesday, and involve pizza, user discussion, feedback, and a half-hour talk on topics or technologies of interest to the SciNet community

The SciNet Users Group (SNUG) meetings are every month on the second Wednesday, and involve pizza, user discussion, feedback, and a half-hour talk on topics or technologies of interest to the SciNet community

The SciNet Users Group (SNUG) meetings are held every month on the second Wednesday, and involve pizza, user discussion, feedback, and one or two short talks on topics or technologies of interest to the SciNet community

The SciNet Users Group (SNUG) meetings are every month on the second Wednesday, and involve pizza, user discussion, feedback, and a half-hour talk on topics or technologies of interest to the SciNet community

The SciNet Users Group (SNUG) meetings are every month on the second Wednesday, and involve pizza, user discussion, feedback, and a half-hour talk on topics or technologies of interest to the SciNet community

The SciNet Users Group (SNUG) meetings are every month on the second Wednesday

The SciNet Users Group (SNUG) meetings are every month on the second Wednesday, and involve pizza, user discussion, feedback, and a half-hour talk on topics or technologies of interest to the SciNet community

The SciNet Users Group (SNUG) meetings are every month on the second Wednesday, and involve pizza, user discussion, feedback, and a half-hour talk on topics or technologies of interest to the SciNet community

The SciNet Users Group (SNUG) meetings are every month on the second Wednesday, and involve pizza, user discussion, feedback, and a half-hour talk on topics or technologies of interest to the SciNet community

The SciNet Users Group (SNUG) meetings are every month on the second Wednesday, and involve pizza, user discussion, feedback, and a half-hour talk on topics or technologies of interest to the SciNet community

The SciNet Users Group (SNUG) meetings are every month on the second Wednesday, and involve pizza, user discussion, feedback, and a half-hour talk on topics or technologies of interest to the SciNet community

The SciNet Users Group (SNUG) meetings are every month on the second Wednesday, and involve pizza, user discussion, feedback, and a half-hour talk on topics or technologies of interest to the SciNet community

The SciNet Users Group (SNUG) meetings are every month on the second Wednesday, and involve pizza, user discussion, feedback, and a half-hour talk on topics or technologies of interest to the SciNet community. This month: GPFS

TechTalk: Self-propelled dimer motors: Small-code large-scale simulations using OpenCL and LuaJIT, pizza, user discussion, feedback.