Hello Everyone:

Apple Canada and the BookStore are pleased to be providing a FREE seminar on campus entitled, "Macs in Science". Please see the end of this message for the details of this presentation.

If you would be so kind as to forward this information to the researchers in your respective departments, it would be greatly appreciated.

Regards, Doug

------------- Doug Hamilton Computers-on-Campus; Univ. of Manitoba 204-474-6196 (Ph.) 204-474-7556 (Fax) http://www.umanitoba.ca/bookstore/

### Macs in Science

You're invited to a FREE seminar exploring Apple's solutions for scientific computing. The Macs ease of use, stability and superior performance help scientists achieve faster, more insightful results. Find out how the Mac integrates with other platforms, what other scientists have accomplished with their Macs and why the Mac is the ideal platform for scientific research and day-to-day activities.

Presenter, Willi Powell is the Strategic Development Manager at Apple Canada specializing in science and high performance computing solutions.

What you’ll learn about in this seminar: • One system for all your work • Running multiple operating systems (Mac OS X, Windows and Linux) • Publishing and presentation tools • Podcasting your science • Science and productivity applications on the Mac • Collaboration services • iPhone and iPod Touch for mobile science applications • Compute in any language: C/C++, Fortran, Java, Perl, Python • High Performance Computing and 64-bit multicore computing • General purpose Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) computing (OpenCL)

Date & Times: • Date – Friday, June 26th, 2009 • Time – 9:00 a.m. -to- Noon • Location – Fort Garry Campus, Engineering 2, Lecture Theatre Rm165 (E2-165)

Who Should Attend? Research and teaching faculty, undergraduate & graduate students, deans and department chairs, researchers, distance learning providers, lab managers, medical and scientific professionals, and prospective Mac users.

Although not required, it would however be greatly appreciated if you could please RVSP to Doug Hamilton (doug_hamilton@umanitoba.ca).

Some links of interest: http://www.apple.com/science/ http://www.apple.com/science/solutions/ http://www.apple.com/science/whitepaper/ ###