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SHARCNET is pleased to announce the results of its Round XXI Dedicated Programming Support competition. The primary objectives of this program are to enable key research projects with the potential for exceptional and lasting impact that require significant programming support to proceed, and facilitate optimal exploitation of SHARCNET’s or the Digital Research Alliance of Canada’s computing infrastructure for internationally leading research.

In this Round, programmer allocations have been awarded to:

  • Conrard Giresse Tetsassi Feugmo, Chemistry, University of Waterloo

SHARCNET plans to run another competition in the Fall of 2023. Please visit our DP website for more information.



Sponsored by Compute Ontario and presented by CAC, SciNet and SHARCNET, the new Compute Ontario Colloquia is a weekly informational series hosted via Zoom. These informational presentations cover a wide range of Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) topics, such as advanced research computing (ARC), research data management (RDM), and research software (RS). The presentations are delivered by Compute Ontario and consortium staff and featured speakers.

The series commences January 2023 and will supersede similar webinar series previously delivered by Compute Ontario’s consortium (e.g. SHARCNET’s General Interest Webinars or SciNet’s User Group Meeting TechTalks). The Colloquia are each 1 hour in length and include time for questions. No registration is required.



SHARCNET is issuing a call for proposals for Dedicated Programming Support Round XXI. Applications are encouraged that satisfy the programme objectives and priority will be given to proposals that meet one or more of the following conditions:

  • Propose an innovative project that will leverage the capabilities of the national systems, such as “Graham” and the cloud.
  • Propose a programme of work that deals with the efficient processing of large, heterogeneous datasets using a variety of data mining, machine learning or other analytics software.

Applications are submitted via SHARCNET’s webportal and are due by December 31, 2022 at 11:59 pm EST. A consultation with a SHARCNET HPTC prior to submission is a programme requirement.

For additional information, please refer to the application guidelines. Questions should be addressed to research-support@sharcnet.ca.



SHARCNET is pleased to announce the results of its Round XX Dedicated Programming Support competition. The primary objectives of this program are to enable key research projects with the potential for exceptional and lasting impact that require significant programming support to proceed, and facilitate optimal exploitation of SHARCNET’s or the Digital Research Alliance of Canada’s computing infrastructure for internationally leading research.

In this Round, programmer allocations have been awarded to:

  • Nasser Mohieddin Abukhdeir, Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo
  • David Earn, Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University
  • Kathleen Hill, Biology, Western University

SHARCNET plans to run another competition later this year, for awards commencing January 2023. Please visit our DP website for more information.



On September 22, 2022, the Alliance will launch the annual Resource Allocation Competition (RAC), a peer-reviewed process to grant priority access to compute, storage and cloud resources beyond what can be obtained via the Rapid Access Service.

Please refer to the RAC application guide for information on eligibility and submission requirements.

Applications must be submitted electronically through the CCDB by Wednesday, November 2, 2022 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time.

Have questions or need help with the RAC 2023 application process? Join us for a Q&A Session:

English: October 4 from 12 to 1:30 p.m. ET – Registration
French: October 5 from 12 to 1:30 p.m. ET – Registration

Questions? Please email allocations@tech.alliancecan.ca.



SHARCNET is issuing a call for proposals for Dedicated Programming Support Round XX. Applications are encouraged that satisfy the programme objectives and priority will be given to proposals that meet one or more of the following conditions:

  • Propose an innovative project that will leverage the capabilities of the national systems, such as “Graham” and the cloud.
  • Propose a programme of work that deals with the efficient processing of large, heterogeneous datasets using a variety of data mining, machine learning or other analytics software.

Applications are submitted via SHARCNET’s webportal and are due by August 31, 2022 at 11:59 pm EST. A consultation with a SHARCNET HPTC prior to submission is a programme requirement.

For additional information, please refer to the application guidelines. Questions should be addressed to research-support@sharcnet.ca.



We are pleased to announce the 2022 Compute Ontario Summer School jointly organized by the three consortia: Centre for Advanced Computing, SciNet and SHARCNET. The Summer School is a free series of workshops on skills and technologies for compute and data intensive research delivered by experts in these fields.

The Summer School will begin on May 30th, 2022 and will run until August 5th, 2022, offering virtual (online) workshops on a variety of topics, including advanced research computing basics, high performance computing tools, programming languages, machine learning, visualization, programming GPUs, and bioinformatics. The Summer School workshops are at the beginner-to-intermediate levels of difficulty. Prerequisites are listed in each workshop description.

Sign up now to receive registration notifications for the Summer School workshops. Registration will open two weeks prior to each workshop. One can register for one, some, or all of the workshops in the Summer School. Registration is limited, so please register early. We look forward to hosting you this summer!



SHARCNET is pleased to announce the results of its Round XIX Dedicated Programming Support competition. The primary objectives of this program are to enable key research projects with the potential for exceptional and lasting impact that require significant programming support to proceed, and facilitate optimal exploitation of SHARCNET’s or Compute Canada’s computing infrastructure for internationally leading research.

In this Round, programmer allocations have been awarded to:

  • David Earn, Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University
  • Kathleen Hill, Biology, Western University

SHARCNET plans to run another competition in the Spring of 2022. Please visit our DP website for more information.