For Mount Royal Mathematical and Computational Modeling Mini-Symposium

February 16, 2010

• Introduction

• National Setting
  

• WestGrid Organization
  

• What WestGrid Has to Offer

• Getting Started

• Contacts

Introduction

• Speaker

  • Doug Phillips, Scientific Computing Consultant, U of Calgary

• Purpose

  • Make you aware of free HPC resources available through WestGrid

National Setting

• Compute Canada - computecanada.org

• Regional Consortia

• TECC

• National Registration Database

• Resource Allocation Committees

WestGrid Organization

• WestGrid home page - westgrid.ca
  

WestGrid Resources

• Hardware for computations - see Resources and Services page
  

• Software -  westgrid.ca/support/software

• Support - support@westgrid.ca

• Other (network infrastructure, collaboration facilities, experimental hardware, visualization facility, ...)

Getting Started

• Applying for an account - westgrid.ca/support/accounts

Contacts

• WestGrid website -  WestGrid home page (www.westgrid.ca) .

• Support email list for technical questions - Write to support@westgrid.ca .

• Questions about WestGrid governance and politics - Write to Jill Kowalchuk -  info@westgrid.ca .

Updated 2010-02-16.