List of Related Events :

The Research Support Group, and CNS, understands the importance of various forms of outreach. This includes all levels of participation in events such as Conferences, Symposiums, trade booths and courses.

We Were There (helping with the organizing, giving presentations or demos):

• Annual Workshop: "Parallel Computing and Visualization"
  (April 29 - May 3) Organized by the Research Support Group, Computing and Network Services, University of Alberta. Additional support from the department of Physics. Sponsored by MACI and C3.ca. Also, this year we had three people from our team teaching workshop sessions. Visualization Techniques and Packages - Jon Johansson. OpenMP from /scratch - Edmund Sumbar. Introduction to MPI and PVM - Masao Fujinaga.
  
  
• Grid Computing in Canada
  May 1, 2002. Organized by Netera Alliance, CNS with additional support from C3.ca.
  Ron Senda was one of the moderators and with the people from Netera participated in organizing the event.
  
  
• Grid Canada.
  Grid Canada was co-located during the Global Grid Forum in Toronto (17-20 February 2002). Ron Senda and Norris Weimer participated to help set up a Canada wide testbed.
  
  
• SGI Technical Products Refresh:
  Sponsored by SGI and organized by the research support group. Scott Gaerisch, the SGI rep for the U of A, and his associates visited the University of Alberta on Monday and Tuesday, 22 and 23 October, 2001. Scott and team discussed the new CPU road map, storage, and some of the trends in visualization technologies.
  
  
• High Performance Computing Information Session:
  Sponsored by MACI and C3.ca and organized by the Research Support Group. Held on Friday October 19, 2001 at the Faculty Club. Ron gave an overview of some of the HPC facilities available.
  
  
• Career Fair
  Wednesday Sept. 26th UofA Butter Dome,
  Research Support Group, Denise Thornton.
  Demo of 3D Visualization work we have done.
  
  
• C3 Workshop in Windsor
  (held in conjunction with HPCS2001) June 2001,
  Research Support Group, Norris Weimer.
  Norris gave an overview of the work we have done over the past year.
  
  
• Annual Workshop: "Parallel Computing and Visualization"
  April 30 - May 4,
  Organized by the Research Support Group,
  Computing and Network Services, University of Alberta
  Sponsored by MACI, C3.ca and SGI.
  
  
• Research Revelation 2001,
  March 24 2001. UofA Campus, in the Butter Dome
  The Research Support Group highlighted Visualization, with the 3D scanner, and various output forms.
  
  
• November 24/25, 2000, Toronto, Ontario:
  The SGI/PBS Workshop,
  Marc La France, Computing and Network Services, University of Alberta
  "The PBS system on MACI Origin 2000/2400 (48/64 - processors) - Alberta experience".
  
  
• University of Alberta. Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2000,
  October 11 2000. Conference Center, Edmonton Alberta.
  CNS had a booth displaying many of our services and members of the Research Support Group were there. This year we helped with the display of the new high resolution camera.
  
  
• CNS Open House,
  August 23rd, 2000. General Services Building, UofA Campus.
  CNS hosted an Open House and the Research Support Group participated in the tours of the center highlighting the Supercomputer. We also had demos of 3D-scanning, as well as demos of stereo viewing and plotting.
  
  
• Computational Research Topics for the UofA Facilities,
  May, 2000. General Services Building, UofA Campus.
  This year the courses took the form of workshops.
  
  
• Farewell to the Chancellor
  May 10th, 2000. Pavilion, UofA Campus.
  Presented a 3D plaque to Lois Hole.
  
  
• Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for Borealis
  February 2000. General Services Building, UofA Campus.
  Machine room tours.
  
  
• Research Revelation 2000,
  February 2000. UofA Campus, in the Butter Dome
  The Research Support Group highlighted the major expansion to the Origin, the new 2400.
  
  
• University of Alberta. Annual General Meeting (AGM) 1999,
  October 1999. Conference Center, Edmonton Alberta.
  CNS will have a booth displaying many of our services and members of the Research Support Group will be there with the 3D scanner.
  
  
• Info City 1999,
  1999. Conference Center, Edmonton Alberta.
  The UofA will have a display area and members of the CNS and the Research Support Group will be there with the 3D scanner.
  
  
• Campus Computing Symposium,
  1999. Tory Turtle, UofA Campus.
  The Research Stream.
  
  
• Computational Research Topics for the University of Alberta Facilities,
  April 29 to May 6, 1999. General Services Building and MEC Lab,
  UofA Campus, Edmonton Alberta.
  Netera Alliance and the Research Support Group are organizing a series of talks and courses on how to use the High Performance facilities at the UofA. (From RSG: Instructors include Diego Novillo, Ivan Ourdev and David Moody).
  
  
• Research Revelation 1999,
  February 1999. UofA Campus, in the Butter Dome
  The Research Support Group will have a booth highlighting the new 3D scanner and the new Origin 2000.
  
  
• University of Alberta. Annual General Meeting (AGM) 1998,
  October 1998. Conference Center, Edmonton Alberta.
  CNS had a booth displaying many of our services, Research Support Group was there with a SGI Octane showcasing some of the visualization work being done on campus and to highlight the Origin.
  
  
• HPCS 98 Symposium,
  May 20 - 22, 1998. Fantasyland Hotel, Edmonton Alberta.
  The 12^th Annual International Symposium on high-performance Computing Systems (HPCS) held at the Fantasyland Hotel in West Edmonton Mall from May 20-22 1998. The Symposium organizing committee consists of representatives from Computing Science, CNS, and University departmental research teams.