General Interest Seminars

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This is a page organizing/archiving general interest seminars (became a part of Compute Ontario Colloquia weekly series starting January 2023).

Round 1

Presenter Topic(s) Dates Att
Sergey Serial farming and Monte Carlo for SHARCNET 2011/05/18 15
David Automating Tasks with bash 2011/06/08 8
HughM Debugging at SHARCNET 2011/06/29 11
Isaac Introduction to Linux 2011/07/20 9
Pawel Linear Algebra on GPU 2011/09/21 6
Jemmy MATLAB Parallel Computing Toolbox on SHARCNET 2011/10/12 7
Alex Visualizing Data with Paraview 2011/11/02 9
Baolai Managing your files effectively at SHARCNET with SVN 2011/11/23 6
Tyson Introduction to Valgrind 2012/03/14 0
Nick Optimizing Tools for Development and Execution of Programs 2012/04/04 14

Round 2 (Starting Sept. 2012)

Note: henceforth, there is expected to be a General Interest Seminar every month, on the third Wednesday at noon. Please be responsible about this and plan for your month.

Month Presenter Topic(s) Date Att
SEP Pawel Why Would I Use GPUs? 2012/09/26 12
OCT Tyson Introduction to Valgrind 2012/10/17 5
NOV HughM New User Seminar - Part 2 2012/11/21 15
DEC
JAN Isaac Shell scripting 2013/01/23 18
FEB Jemmy SHARCNET Software Support Updates 2013/02/27 7
MAY Sergey Quick-n-dirty ways to run your serial code faster, in parallel 2013/05/01 15
JUNE David Parallel programming patterns 2013/06/
JUL Alex 2013/07/
AUG Baolai 2013/08/
SEP Nick 2013/09/

Round 3 (Starting Sept. 2013)

Month Presenter Topic(s) Date Att
NOV Isaac Introduction to Linux 2013/11/20 32
DEC Pawel Why Would I Use GPUs? 2013/12/18 22
JAN Alex Using parallel I/O in SHARCNET 2014/01/15 10
FEB Sergey Profiling MPI codes with Allinea's MAP 2014/02/19 10
MAR Baolai Managing your files effectively at SHARCNET with SVN 2014/03/19 8
APR Tyson My code doesn't crash -- why should I still use Valgrind? 2014/04/16 17
MAY Jemmy Running MATLAB in SHARCNET 2014/05/21 34
JUNE Hugh Debugging at SHARCNET 2014/06/18 20
JUL James Transitioning from Matlab to Octave 2014/07/16 ?
AUG 2014/08/20


Round 4 (Starting Sept. 2014)

Note: with the new (biweekly) schedule, full time HPTC will have to give 2 seminars per year. Please make at least one of these two seminars a new one (the other one can be an old recycled one).

Presenter Topic(s) Date Att Reg
Paul Advanced Message Passing in MPI: Using MPI Datatypes with Opaque C++ Types 2014/09/17 7 6
Ed An Introduction to Java Threads 2014/10/01 9 8
Isaac CUDA Basics and how to 2014/10/15 20 31
Fei Is the Intel Xeon Phi right for me? 2014/10/29 11 15
Pawel Linear Algebra on GPU 2014/11/12 11 8
Tyson The SHARCNET Desktop 2014/11/26 17 8
Weiguan Programming with VTK - a high-level visualization library 2014/12/10 18 14
James SHARCNet file management 2015/01/07 15 9
Hugh New User Seminar - Part 2 2015/01/21 10 17
Fei Deep Learning on SHARCNET: From CPU to GPU cluster 2015/02/04 40 22
Sergey Serial and parallel farming from A to Z 2015/02/18 30 23
Paul The Relevance of OpenCL to HPC 2015/03/04 15+20 live 12
Ed Programming, best practices 2015/03/18 23 17
Baolai A brief look at numerical libraries: The tools you can use 2015/04/01 8 12
Jemmy An Update on MATLAB at SHARCNET 2015/04/15 7 13
Pawel High Performance Computing with Python 2015/04/29 39 29
Tyson Exploring a new approach to package management 2015/05/14 6 3
[[]] 2015/05/27 canceled
Mark Get the most out of SharcNET 2015/06/10 25 23
Armin Programming with Wt - A C++ library for developing stateful and highly interactive web applications 2015/06/24 7 5
Jemmy Hybrid MPI and OpenMP Parallel Programming 2015/07/08 17 13
Sergey Debugging and profiling of MPI programs [[]] 2015/07/22 15 9
Baolai Parallel programming without MPI - Using coarrays in Fortran 2015/08/05 10 6
Isaac Introduction to Parallel I/O 2015/08/19 18 16

Round 5 (Starting Sept. 2015)

Note: with the new (biweekly) schedule, full time HPTC will have to give 2 seminars per year. Please make at least one of these two seminars a new one (the other one can be an old recycled one).

Presenter Topic(s) Date Att Reg
Weiguang Scientific Visualization with ParaView 2015/9/16 23 15
James Profiling function vectorization in Matlab/Octave 2015/9/30 11 4
Fei CUDA Profiling and Tuning 2015/10/14 18 12
Hugh Fundamentals of working at the command line at SHARCNET 2015/10/28 35 16
Paul Introduction to MPI - Part I 2015/11/11 20 25
Pawel Introduction to MPI - Part II 2015/11/25 10 17
Ed Parallel Design Patterns 2015/12/9 10 15
Armin Automating Software Build Process using CMake 2016/1/6 16 12
Jemmy Introduction to OpenMP Parallel Programming 2016/1/20 5 5
Tyson UNIX shell expansion: proper use and advanced forms 2016/2/3 17 6
Baolai Parallel and high performance computing with R 2016/2/17 24 21
Weiguang Raphaël - a vector graphics library for web development 2016/3/2 6 5
Sergey Debugging OpenMP programs 2016/3/16 1 3
Isaac How to get started with OpenFOAM at SHARCNET 2016/3/30 14 7
James Quick tips for getting the most out of SHARCNET 2016/4/13 17 13
Fei Deep Learning on SHARCNET: Tools you can use 2016/4/27 38 23
Tyson Git and SHARCNET 2016/5/11 14 10
Doug Canceled 2016/5/25
Jose Introduction to Apache Spark on SHARCNET 2016/6/8 15 9
Hugh Canceled 2016/6/22
Ed Canceled 2016/7/6
Jemmy Hybrid MPI and OpenMP Parallel Programming 2016/7/20 7 10
Pawel Introduction to MPI - Part III 2016/8/3 0 2
Paul Introduction to Jupyter 2016/8/17 14 6
Armin Automating Software Build Process using CMake 2016/9/14 6 8
Baolai Introduction to The Unix Shell - Automating Your Work 2016/9/28 23 17
Mark What Happened to My Job? Cluster Scheduling In Detail 2016/10/12 17 11
Isaac Introduction To Python: simple practise of data analysis 2016/10/26 24 30
Sergey Debugging CUDA programs 2016/11/9 3 1
Doug Canceled 2016/11/23 0 0
Ed Defensive Programming : Best Practices 2016/12/7 8 15

Round 6 (Starting January 2017)

Presenter Topic(s) Date Att Reg
Weiguang Introduction to ParaView 2017/1/4 12 13
James Navigating the research computing resource renewals coming in 2017 2017/1/18 11 10
Fei Deep Learning on SHARCNET: Best Practices 2017/2/1 23 24
Tyson Git and SHARCNET (part 2) 2017/2/15 5 13
Jose Machine Learning with Spark at SHARCNET 2017/3/1 12 28
Pawel High Performance Computing with Python 2017/3/15 27 37
Paul CANCELED (speaker not ready) 2017/3/29
Baolai Modern Fortran: Concurrency and Parallelism 2017/4/12 18 22
Armin Automating Software Build Process using CMake – Part II 2017/4/26 2 1
Jemmy OpenMP 4.x: New features and Protocols 2017/5/10 9 3
Isaac How to compile/run OpenFOAM in SHARCNET 2017/5/24 10 7
Ed CANCELED (one attendee) 2017/6/7 1 2
Sergey What's new and exciting about Graham's GPUs 2017/6/21 27 17
Weiguang Train models to recognize hand-written digits using Tensorflow 2017/7/5 24 23
James How jobs are scheduled to run on Graham and Cedar 2017/7/19 55 34
Doug Intel MPI Library Cluster Edition on Graham 2017/8/2 6 2
Tyson Packaging with Nix 2017/8/16 6 4
Kamil Partitions and scheduling, running jobs effectively on Graham and Cedar 2017/9/13 34 24
Fei Training Neural Networks with hundreds of GPUs on Graham and Cedar 2017/9/20 46 36
Mohamed Introduction to SHARCNET Cloud 2017/9/27 19 6
Pawel Linear Algebra on GPU 2017/10/11 20 16
Jose Machine Learning using Jupyter Notebooks on Graham 2017/10/25 36 34
Isaac Introduction to LINUX/SHELL programming in SHARCNET 2017/11/8 31 33
Sergey Serial farming on Graham 2017/11/22 22 17
Baolai Introduction to Eclipse for debugging - Part I 2017/12/6 10 4
Doug Intro to Intel Performance Tools 2018/1/17 8 8
Ed Deploying a Full Stack Web Solution on the Cloud for Cluster Access 2018/1/31 22 12
Paul Singularity 2018/2/14 13 9
Armin Visual Studio Code - Your Next Coding Companion for Advanced Research Computing 2018/2/28 14 12
Mark Using SSH for Good, not Evil 2018/3/14 17 16

Round 7 (Starting March 2018)

Presenter Topic(s) Date Att Reg
Jemmy Using Computational Chemistry software effectively on Graham 2018/3/28 14 4
Pawel Improving your Python programs with NumPy and SciPy 2018/4/11 24 22
James All about job wait times in the Graham queue 2018/4/25 31 22
Tyson Summer School preview 2018/5/9 18 14
Weiguang CANCELED 2018/5/23 0
Jose CANCELED 2018/6/6 0
Isaac Fundamentals of working at the command line at Graham 2018/6/20 30 28
Sergey Debugging on Graham with DDT 2018/7/4 6 7
Paul Mixed Source C, C++, and Fortran Programs 2018/7/18 18 9
Ed Introduction to MySQL on Graham 2018/8/1 15 14
Armin Harnessing the Power of Heterogeneous Computing using Boost.Compute + OpenCL 2018/8/15 7 5
Baolai Concurrent File I/O by Multiple Processes 2018/9/12 13 7
Doug The Benefits of GLOST for Many Jobs 2018/9/26 9 9
James Understand (and potentially reduce) job wait times by examining scheduler configuration, load in the queue and account usage 2018/10/10 23 18
Weiguang Stock Prediction Using Recurrent Neural Network 2018/10/24 33 29
Jemmy Using MATLAB effectively on Graham and Cedar 2018/11/7 33 -
Ed MySQL Part 2: Relations and Joins 2018/11/21 5 -
Paul Using Pseudorandom Number Sequences in C++ 2018/12/5 7 -
Sergey Code profiling on Graham 2018/12/19 26 -
Tyson The Monad Understanding Hurdle 2019/1/16 9 -
Isaac Best practices for newbies on Graham 2019/1/30 35 -
Mark What Happened To My Job? 2019/2/13 15
Armin Dipping into C++17 Parallel Algorithms with Intel's Parallel STL 2019/2/27 14
Doug Exploring the Use of Application Software on Grahams Visualization Machine 2019/3/13 35
Pawel Introduction to parallel programming with MPI and Python 2019/3/27 25 -
Baolai Exploring Octave package dataframe 2019/4/10 2

Round 8 (Starting April 2019)

Presenter Topic(s) Date Att
James PRE and POST production on Graham 2019/4/24 12
Weiguang Pull your own data into ParaView 2019/5/8 31
Jemmy The New Development of OpenMP 2019/5/22 22
Ed Julia - A first perspective 2019/6/5 45
Paul Using C++'s Parallel Algorithms 2019/6/19 14
Sergey CANCELED 2019/7/3 0
Tyson The Monad Understanding Hurdle (Part 2) 2019/7/17 0
Isaac Fundamentals of working at the command line at Graham 2019/7/31 54
Armin Is It Possible to Use C++ Parallel Algorithms in a Distributed Memory Setup (i.e. MPI)? 2019/8/14 8
Doug CANCELED 2019/9/11 0
Pawel Using reduced numerical precision on Pascal, Volta and Turing GPUs 2019/9/25 6
Jinhui Introduction to scalable computing with Dask in Python 2019/10/9 40
Doug Leveraging Compiler Optimization Reports 2019/10/23 5
Weiguang Using Multiple GPUs in Tensorflow 2019/11/6 18
Baolai Julia: A second perspective 2019/11/20 5
Ed Docker 2019/12/4 27
Jemmy Introduction to HPC Programming Language Chapel: Base Language Overview 2019/12/18 10
Tyson The Monad Understanding Hurdle (Part 3) 2020/1/15 2
Paul Singularity 3.5 2020/1/29 27
Sergey New User Seminar, Part II 2020/2/12 23
Isaac How to Run AI programs in Graham 2020/2/26 44
Baolai Julia: A third perspective - parallel computing explained 2020/3/11 18
Jinhui Introduction to scalable computing with Dask in Python (Continued) 2020/3/25 15
Mark Using SSHFS to make CC storage more accessible 2020/4/8 21
Pawel Collaborative Groups in CUDA 2020/4/22 2
Doug CANCELED 2020/5/6
Armin CANCELED 2020/5/20

Round 9 (Starting July 2020)

Presenter Topic(s) Date Att
Tyler Cython: A First Look 2020/7/8 60
James Visualizing job usage on the Compute Canada systems with the ViewClust Python package 2020/7/15 33
Armin How to Use C++ Parallel Algorithms in a Distributed Memory Setup (i.e. MPI) 2020/7/29 15
Sergio Bioinformatics in the terminal: Tips and tricks to make your life easier 2020/8/12 47
Doug Options for Solving Jobs with Many Tasks 2020/9/9 13 30
Weiguang Is my neural network too big to fit into GPU? 2020/9/23 59 93
Jemmy Introduction to HPC Programming Language Chapel: Parallel Approaches 2020/10/7 7
Ed Introduction to Git 2020/10/21 50
Baolai Julia: Parallel computing revisited 2020/11/4 8
Tyson NixOS: The second largest and the most up-to-date Linux distribution 2020/11/18 18
Paul Practical Singularity 2020/12/2 28
Jinhui Offload Analytics Workload in Python to GPUs with RAPIDS 2020/12/16 46
Pawel Programming GPUs with Fortran 2021/1/13 25
Baolai Computing in arbitrary precision 2021/1/27 13
Isaac Using multiple GPUs for Machine Learning 2021/2/10 63
James Generating interactive visualizations with Plotly on Graham 2021/2/24 47
Armin Scalable Memory Allocation for Parallel Algorithms 2021/3/17 7
Sergio FauxConda: ways to use Conda without conda 2021/3/24 27
Jemmy An Update to ADF/AMS software on Graham 2021/4/7 14
Sergey Debugging your code with DDT 2021/4/21 15
Tyler Pandas Recipes for New Python Users 2021/5/5 53
Doug DIY Local Program Installation 2021/5/19 15
Baolai CANCELED 2021/6/2
Weiguang Learning from competition 2021/6/16 103
Tyson CANCELED 2021/6/30
Paul Hybrid MPI 2021/7/14 41
Mark Comparing CPU, GPU, memory, interconnect and filesystem performance across National systems 2021/7/28 22
Ed Git Part 2 – Common Git Commands 2021/8/11 41
Baolai Introduction to Eclipse Part 2 - Developing and debugging MPI code 2021/9/8 16
Pawel ROCm: AMD's platform for GPU computing 2021/9/22 20
Sergey META: running a large number of jobs conveniently 2021/10/6 74
Jinhui Scaling Hyperparameter Tuning with Dask-ML on Clusters 2021/10/20 51
Isaac Running machine learning example (MNIST) on multi-cores/nodes in Graham 2021/11/3 96
Tyson The Layered Grammar of Graphics (gglot2/plotnine) 2021/11/17 59
Baolai Introduction to Eclipse Part 3 - Debugging MPI code 2021/12/1 9

Round 10 (Starting December 2021)

Presenter Topic(s) Date Att
James Tips for identifying when job wait times can be reduced by job submission parameter changes 2021/12/15 68
Armin Remote Development on Clusters with VSCode 2022/1/12 62
Sergio From histograms to dashboards: An introduction to data visualization with Python 2022/1/26 116
Tyler Conquering the Scheduler 2022/2/9 49
Jemmy Gaussian16 and NBO7 on Graham and Cedar 2022/2/23 50
Doug More Options for Solving Jobs with Many Tasks 2022/3/9 4
Weiguang Using Tensorboard to debug and profile neural network models 2022/3/23 35
Paul Apptainer 2022/4/6 39
Mark 10 ways to optimize your workflow 2022/4/20 39
Ed Demystifying Web Portals 2022/5/4 29
Sergey Profiling GPU codes with Nsight 2022/5/18 23
Pawel Speeding up Python code with Numba 2022/6/1 58
Baolai Realtime display with Gnuplot 2022/6/15 24
Isaac Running PyTorch codes with multi-GPU/nodes on national systems 2022/6/29 54
Jinhui Working with Jupyter on Clusters 2022/7/13 56
James Visualizing job properties for wait time assessment 2022/7/27 31
Tyson Debugging with ParaView 2022/8/10 20
Armin Remote Development on Clusters with VSCode - Part II 2022/9/7 16
Tyler Creating and Distributing Python Packages 2022/9/21 45
Weiguang Transfer Learning with Tensorflow Hub 2022/10/5 26
Doug Strategies For Managing Filesystem Quotas 2022/10/19 24
Paul Profiling & Performance Tuning CPU Programs 2022/11/2 19
Sergey Video Editing with KDEnLive 2022/11/16 21
Ed Deploying a simple Express.js Web App 2022/11/30 12
Pawel Which GPU should I use? 2022/12/14 24
Mark 2023/1/11
Baolai 2023/1/25
Jinhui 2023/2/8
Tyson 2023/2/22
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