Xiaoming Zhang

Department of Earth Sciences , University of Western Ontario

(Geo)Physics and others.



PhD Courses
I have been enrolled in the following courses through my Ph.D. program in the University of Western Ontario.
  • GEOPHYS 9531A Computer Modelling of Natural Processes, instructed by Prof. Robert Shcherbakov
  • PHYSICS 9404B Statistical Mechanics, instructed by Prof. Colin Denniston
  • GEOPHYS 9680A Graduate Seminar, instructed by Prof. Roberta Flemming
  • GEOPHYS 9572A Physics of the Earth, instructed by Prof. Sean Shieh


MSc Courses
I have been enrolled in the following physics courses through my M.Sc. program in the University of Alberta.
The following is simply for archiving purposes:


AICT high performance computing workshop
The AICT workshop is held annually for researchers at the University of Alberta to accquire practical computation techniques with lectures and hands-on tutorials. The following table includes the workshops I have attended and the archived materials.

Workshop topic Materials archive
Practical Python 2 Practical Python2 Slides.pdf, Exercise files
Python Programming Basics PracticalPythonPSlides.pdf, PracticalPythonPTasks.pdf
Parallel Computing with MATLAB MATLAB Workshop Slides (PDF), sample exercise
Introduction to Parallel Programming with MPI MPI Slides (PDF), sample code
Atlas and the LHC, Grids and HPC AtlasUofA.pdf
Measuring Parallelism MeasuringParallelism.pdf
Topics in Code Optimization may2010-opt.pdf


Access your AFS space

Each Campus Computing ID is given 24 GB of AFS disk space. It can be accessed in many ways, e.g.

ssh ccid@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca



Set up your Unversity of Alberta website

Web contents should be under the public_html directory. Currently the UofA server supports static websites only.

mkdir public_html

set up look access to the home directory

fs setacl . webservers l

set up read access to the public_html directory

fs setacl public_html webservers rl

at last

exit