ACENET Basics: Introduction to Shell Scripting

Shell scripting helps you save time, automate file management tasks, and better use the power of Linux. You’ll learn how to use the command line to carry out repetitive tasks, extract information from files quickly, combine commands in powerful ways, learn about job scripts, shell variables and looping commands, and capture a workflow so you can re-use it easily. Save time, reduce errors, and use Linux more effectively.

ACENET Basics: Introduction to Linux

Linux is the terminal interface used to enable you to use supercomputing clusters from your desktop. It's the tool you need to get your data on the clusters, run your programs, and get your data back. In this session, learn how to create and navigate directories for your data, load files, manage your storage, run programs on the compute clusters, and set file permissions. This workshop is designed for those with no prior experience in working with a terminal interface. 

ACENET Basics: Introduction to High Performance Computing

What is High Performance Computing (HPC) and what can it do for me? How can ACENET help? Used by researchers across many disciplines to tackle analyses too large or complex for a desktop, or to achieve improved efficiency over a desktop, this session takes participants through the preliminary stages of learning about high performance computing (HPC) and computing clusters, and how to get started with this type of computing. It then reviews software packages available for applications, data analysis, software development and compiling code.

ACENET: Basics of Computers

Most of us have experience using a computer, whether for school, work, or entertainment, but how many of us have actually had an expert teach us how to use it? It doesn't need to be (quite) this way. This talk won't teach you how to troubleshoot everything, but will give you insight to how media, programs and data are encoded and used by computers, so you can make more sense of why computers behave the ways they do, and solve some of your problems with greater efficiency and less frustration.

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What brought you to UPEI? Why did you choose to study here?

I was born and raised in Damascus, the capital city of Syria. I arrived with my family in Canada almost five years ago, and have been living on Prince Edward Island ever since. I have always been interested in pursuing a career in engineering, and upon learning about the program and receiving positive feedback from friends and family members, I was excited to have the opportunity to earn a degree in this field.

UPEI writer-in-residence, Harry Thurston to deliver poetry reading and workshops

Award-winning poet, nature and environmental author, conservation activist, and the 2023 UPEI writer-in-residence Harry Thurston will read from his new poetry collection, Ultramarine, on Wednesday, September 27, at 7:30 pm at the Gallery Coffee Shop and Bistro, 82 Great George Street, Charlottetown. This free event is sponsored by the UPEI Faculty of Science and Faculty of Arts and The Bookmark.        

SEASON PREVIEW: Women’s Soccer Panthers ready to chase 2023 playoff spot

As they enter the 2023 season, the UPEI Women’s Soccer Panthers are optimistic that this year their playoff hopes and dreams will become reality.

“We’re really hungry for that playoff spot this year,” said third-year centre back Roselyn Kushko. “We worked on a few things towards the end of last season that we’re applying this year, and so far it’s been working well for us.”

That’s an encouraging sign for the Panthers, who begin their journey Friday evening versus the Mount Allison University Mounties.

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