March 2019

The Origins of Canadian Supercomputing: The Visionary Role of Alberta

As part of Cybera’s 25th Anniversary, we will be publishing stories throughout the year looking back at the major milestones of Alberta computing. This week, we explore the early days of supercomputing in Canada, and how the University of Calgaryโ€™s investment in supercomputers helped set the stage for Compute Canada and the National Research and […]

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Media Advisory: Data Science For Entrepreneurs Press Event Wednesday March 20

Experts from Cybera, Albertaโ€™s not-for-profit technology agency, will demonstrate to media and workshop participants some foundational skills in data science (in this case, how to utilize data science, machine learning and natural language processing techniques to harvest Twitter for new business leads).

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March 8 Outage Assessment

On Friday March 8, Cybera experienced an outage that impacted several of our members. On Friday at 4:50 pm we began maintenance work on the DWDM in Edmonton to reset a backup power supply. This work was successfully completed by 5:00 pm. Shortly after (at 5:10 pm), we started receiving alerts notifying us that the

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In places with no internet connectivity, Alberta libraries offer a lifeline

When you look at the total geographic region that the Peace Library System covers, you get a good sense of some of the challenges faced by its IT Services Manager, Janet Ayles. Peace Library basically serves the entire top-left corner of Alberta. With 46 libraries spread over 238,000 square kilometres, Ayles sees a broad range

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Edmonton DWDM issue and subsequent outage

Category:          Network failure Start Time:        2019-03-08  05:06pm Local time. End Time:          2019-03-08  07:45pm Local time. Status update: Service via Edmonton DWDM is restored. It was found out that the DWDM power supply failed and replacement is done. On Fri, Mar 8, 2019 at 5:38 PM Mulugeta Yirba <mulugeta.yirba@cybera.ca> wrote: Category:          Network failure Start Time:

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