Training

NEW: SHARCNET has started developing self-paced online courses, which can be taken any time at your own pace. Once the course conditions (which depend on the course) are satisfied, a course completion certificate is issued. To take any of these courses one has to have an Alliance account. The courses which are already available are listed below, and we plan to develop many more.

Self-paced courses

• New User Course
• Introduction to GPU Programming
• Introduction to Machine Learning
• Introduction to Supercomputing
• Introduction to the Shell

SHARCNET Training 2024 / 2025

Our live and self-paced online courses for the fall 2024 / winter 2025 semesters are listed here: SHARCNET Training 2024 / 2025.

Other training resources

• SHARCNET calendar: contains past and upcoming training events.
• Q&A online session for new users: 1-hour live Q&A session for new SHARCNET/Alliance users given over Zoom every Tuesday from 2:00pm till 3:00pm ET. This session assumes that you have already taken our online self-paced New User course. Its purpose is to answer any questions you might have after taking the course. Check the calendar for the upcoming sessions.
• Introduction to ARC: In fall / winter semesters, the bulk of training provided by SHARCNET to our users is comprised of a series of independent, self-contained workshops on a wide range of topics pertaining to Advanced Research Computing. The workshops include live lectures, hands on labs (both delivered via Zoom), and self-paced learning content.
• Summer Schools: every summer (in early June) SHARCNET runs a full week multi-stream training event for our users at one of our major sites, covering HPC and advanced research computing (ARC) topics.
• General Interest webinars (now part of CO Colloquia): every second Wednesday we give a lunch time one hour long webinar on topics relevant to SHARCNET, Compute Canada, HPC and ARC.
• http://youtube.sharcnet.ca : our youtube channel, where we post the recordings of our tutorials and webinars we produce. (Use this direct link if the previous one doesn't work.)
• Online Courses: Moodle (our Learning Management System) portal for our online courses (online Summer Schools etc.)