UPEI Experiential Education is accepting applications for its International Student Employment Support Program until March 1, 2024. If you are looking for more information about this program or have questions you'd like to have answered, join us for an online information session on January 26 from 11:30 am--12:30 pm.

Register for the information session using this form, and a link will be sent to you the morning of the session.

Join us at the launch event on Wednesday, January 24, from 6:00–9:00 pm, where current UPEI students can connect with past Panther Pitch participants, members of the PEI startup ecosystem, and the MacLauchlan family.

This is an excellent opportunity to expand your professional network and learn more about the MacLauchlan Entrepreneurship Program's Panther Pitch competition. This year, a total of $62,000 in prize money will be awarded to students! Food will be provided.

Are you a student at UPEI who speaks English as an Additional Language (EAL) with questions about…

• pronunciation?
• spelling/grammar?
• vocabulary?
• reading comprehension?

We have great news! The English Corner is for you! We provide language support and practice for any EAL student at UPEI. No appointment is needed; just drop in with your questions. We’re in the Robertson Library, Room 213, on Thursdays from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. 

Trombone, She Wrote: Music by Canadian Women Composers

Experience the expressive side of the trombone from a Canadian perspective, with works by Jocelyn Morlock, F. Jane Naylor, Hope Salmonson, Barbara York, and the premiere of a work for trombone and loop station by Monica Pearce. The recital features Dale Sorensen, trombone and euphonium, with Magdalena von Eccher, piano.

Apache Spark is a user-friendly open-source platform for large-scale data processing, analytics, and parallel computing. Using Apache Spark and Python (PySpark), this workshop is aimed at analyzing data sets that are too large to be handled and processed by a single computer. With hands-on guided examples, the workshop covers the basics of Spark and Resilient Distributed Datasets (RDD) high-level architecture. The examples are mainly written in Python, hence the APIs covered are the ones available in PySpark, including Spark Core API (RDD API), Spark SQL, and Pandas on Spark.

The national high-performance computing (HPC) systems use a job scheduler called “Slurm.” In this session, you will learn how Slurm works and how it allocates jobs, helping you to minimize wait time by framing reasonable requests; ask for only the resources you need to improve efficiency; increase throughput; run more jobs simultaneously; and troubleshoot and address crashes. This workshop is designed for new HPC users or experienced users either transitioning to Slurm or seeking to improve efficiency with the scheduler.

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.

Linux is the terminal interface that enables you to use the ACENET and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (the Alliance) high performance computing 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 get started with Linux, how to create and navigate directories for your data, load files, manage your storage, run programs on the computing clusters, and set file permissions. This workshop is designed for those with no prior experience in working with a terminal interface.