Press Releases
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(posted Tuesday May 04 2010, 14:47)
SHARCNET is pleased to announce âSHARCFest 2010â, our annual outreach campaign of workshops, conferences, and sponsored events to help educate the boarder community on the uses and importance of high-performance computing to research. Our premier event, SHARCNET Research Day 2010, will be held on May 6th at York University and includes two keynote talks by leading HPC researchers. The anchor event for SHARCFest will be our annual HPC Summer School scheduled from May 31-June 4 at Sheridan College. Visit the SHARCNET online calendar for more information or view the SHARCFest poster. |
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(posted Thursday April 29 2010, 10:23)
As part of its continuing outreach efforts, SHARCNET is pleased to be one of the sponsors of “MIND THE GAP” to be hosted by the University of Alberta and WestGrid from May 10-14, 2010. This will be a multidisciplinary workshop bridging the gap between High Performance Computing and the Humanities. |
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(posted Wednesday April 28 2010, 11:46)
SHARCNET has issued a call for Letters of Intent for Round II of SHARCNETâs Research Support Programmes: Dedicated Programming Support. The deadline for Round II LOIâs is May 31, 2010. |
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(posted Monday April 26 2010, 14:12)
In May 2010, approximately 500 of Canadaâs best and brightest high-school age young scientists will be coming to Peterborough, Ontario to participate in Canadaâs annual National Science Fair competition. SHARCNET is pleased to be one of the event sponsors. In challenge there is opportunity, and todayâs world has a myriad of challenges/opportunities that can be addressed with science and technology innovation. Science Fairs are the âincubatorsâ for fresh ideas, and an inspiration for many youth to take some important first steps which lead to future careers in science and/or business. The week long National Fair brings together the winners from regional fairs from across Canada, as well as over 500 judges and representatives from a number of supporting organizations and businesses. The Honorary Chair of the 2010 National Fair is Dr. Roberta Bondar. |
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(posted Thursday April 08 2010, 12:47)
Copper™ Combines Cloud and Grid Computing Technologies to Provide Unprecedented Ease-of-Use and Flexibility The GridCentric Copper™ platform enables real-time, on-demand sharing of high-performance computing resources and makes cluster administration a one-click task. With Copper™, organizations reduce IT expenditures through significantly lower installation and management costs, higher utilization of their physical infrastructure, and improved sharing of their data assets. Copper™ has been in limited trial on a SHARCNET compute cluster located at York University in Toronto, Canada since late 2009, and is now open to all researchers from SHARCNETâs 17 academic member organizations. More… |
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(posted Tuesday March 30 2010, 16:22)
As part of its youth outreach efforts, SHARCNET was pleased to be a silver sponsor at the 40th Annual London District Science and Technology Fair. The event drew 186 students with 135 projects, representing 25 schools at this years event. |
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(posted Monday March 29 2010, 09:53)
The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has initiated a mid-term review of Compute Canada and the national platforms (HPC) fund to ensure goals and objectives are being met. The report has now been submitted and can be viewed from the Compute Canada website (www.computecanada.org). A series of town hall meetings will be scheduled at various locations across Canada to seek input from the researcher community on the medium and long-term strategies for Compute Canada. |
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(posted Monday March 15 2010, 11:51)
SHARCNET has issued a call for proposals for Round XII of SHARCNETâs Research Support Programmes: Large Dedicated Resources. The deadline for Round XII is April 30, 2010. |