We provide registration links from each module’s page (accessible from the top menu or from the front page).
Please register for any module in which you would like to attend a course. Once you register for a module, you can
attend any course(s) in it. We will email a Zoom link to all registered participants before the start of each module. Please have a look in your spam folder if you haven’t received the link by the day before the start of the module.
We recommend that you register only for the modules that you would like to attend.
Important: your email address
These training modules are open to anyone associated with a Canadian post-secondary academic institution. When
registering, please provide your Canadian institutional email address. If you specify a gmail / yahoo / hotmail / other
non-academic email address, we will have to cancel your registration, as we need to prioritize Canadian academic participants.
About us
Since April 1, 2022 the advanced research computing / HPC training in Western Canada has been coordinated by the
Digital Research Alliance of Canada and Simon Fraser University in collaboration with other
universities from British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba. Consequently, “WestGrid summer school” has been renamed
“Western Canada Research Computing summer school”.
Alex Razoumov earned his PhD in computational astrophysics from the University of British Columbia and held
postdoctoral positions in Urbana-Champaign, San Diego, Oak Ridge, and Halifax. He spent five years as HPC
Analyst in SHARCNET and in 2014 moved back to Vancouver to focus on scientific visualization and training
researchers to use advanced computing tools. Alex is currently at Simon Fraser University.
Venkat Mahadevan is the Cloud Architect at the University of British Columbia Advanced Research Computing.
Prior to joining ARC, Venkat was heavily involved with
e-mail security, anti-malware, and identity & access management initiatives at UBC Information Technology. Prior
to joining UBC, he worked as a Systems Administrator/Developer for various organizations supporting research in
transport information systems, scientific visualization, and data management. He is a world traveller and has
lived in various cities including Lusaka, Zug, New York, New Orleans and Lethbridge before finally staying put
in Vancouver. He is eager to help the UBC research community achieve its objectives.
