SFU Research Computing 2026 Summer School


This in-person summer school is offered by SFU’s Research Computing Group on behalf of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. It is hosted by SFU’s Big Data Hub and is open to all researchers at SFU and other Canadian post-secondary institutions.

Register

Each day we will have morning (9:30 or 10am – 12:30pm) and afternoon (1:30m – 4:30pm) sessions, with a visit of the Fir supercomputer on Tuesday starting at 8:30am.

You can register for the full program for $50, or choose specific days at $15 per day. All sessions will be in-person at SFU Burnaby campus, in SFU’s Big Data Hub Presentation Studio (Applied Sciences Building, ASB 10900).

To participate in the hands-on exercises, you will need to bring your own laptop. We will provide guest accounts on our HPC training cluster. For more specific requirements, please see the individual course pages.


Monday
June 1, 2026

Unix shell

Half-day Unix shell

HPC

Half-day HPC

Tuesday
June 2, 2026

Fir tour

HPC

Full-day high-performance computing

Wednesday
June 3, 2026

Git

Half-day version control with Git

R optimizations

Half-day R code optimizations

Thursday
June 4, 2026

Python Polars

Half-day Python DataFrames

Parallel programming

Half-day programming with Chapel

Friday
June 5, 2026

Accelerated Python

Full-day speeding up Python with compilers and parallel execution



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