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Dr. Matthew Mitchell and Laura Super: Monitoring biodiversity in the face of climate change

<p>“High performance computing is and will be the future of science because we have so much data. We’re in a data revolution.” <em>Laura Super, PhD Candidate, UBC Facu</em></p>

New Advanced Research Computing Services to Enhance Cloud Computing and Data Transfer

<p>UBC Advanced Research Computing (ARC) is launching two new services that support UBC researchers to access cloud computing and transfer research data with ease.</p>

Data Champions Pilot Project: Call for funding applications

Digital Research Alliance of Canada is announcing a new call for applications – the Data Champions Pilot Project.  The pilot project will fund ‘Data Champions’ to develop activities at the local, regional and/or national level that advance awareness, understanding,…

Dr. Phillip Richmond: Using High-Performance Computing to diagnose diseases

<p>“When it comes to diagnosing, and sometimes treating, rare genetic diseases, it takes a multidisciplinary team. It’s rewarding to know that I can help patients </p>

Dr. Anthony Wachs: Combining fluid dynamics and high-performance computing

<p>“High-performance computing is evolving so fast,&nbsp;and this determines&nbsp;what we can do&nbsp;in research.&nbsp;This is extremely exciting. I couldn’t have anticipated it.”&nbsp;</p>

BCNET and UBC ARC Speeding up Discoveries of the Universe

<p>"Before this link, it really limited us. Even things we wanted to do on-site, we were very limited,” said Don Wiebe, UBC research associate, physics and astronomy.</p>

UBC's Campus as a Living Lab: Advanced Research Computing (Blog)

Read the UBC Advanced Research Computing blog post here.  UBC’s Campus as a Living Lab (CLL) Fund Competition (2021-22) is now open. Proposals are invited from UBC Faculty & Staff to co-develop innovative, impactful and collaborative ‘living lab’ projects on campus…

ARC in the News: AI technology enables screening of billions of compounds to identify potential COVID-19 drugs

<p>Ever wonder how Artificial Intelligence can help in the race to develop COVID-19 drugs? An interdisciplinary research team led by Dr. Art Cherkasov, Professor, UBC Department of Urologic Sciences, and Senior Scientist at the Vancouver Prostate Centre, give us an answer.</p>

WestGrid Training Modules 2021

WestGrid Summer School is back in a new format - "WestGrid Training Modules 2021". Starting April 27 with 7 different modules.  Course List: Bash command line Introduction to HPC Version control with Git  Basics of Python  Introductory Julia  Parallel…