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SHARCNET partner named best university in Canada
(posted Thursday August 31 2006, 11:47)

The University of Waterloo, one of SHARCNET’s newest institutional partners, has been named the “best overall” university in reputation in Canada, in Maclean’s magazine’s annual universities ranking issue.
Restructuring of SHARCNET
(posted Thursday August 31 2006, 14:36)

At their October 22, 2004 meeting, the SHARCNET Board of Directors approved a new model for the organization that will have a scientist with a strong research background lead the organization. The current Executive Director, Carmen Gicante, supports the new direction and has made a decision to leave SHARCNET to pursue other opportunities effective November 1st. Dr. Hugh Couchman, the Scientific Director, will assume leadership of SHARCNET.
Laurier launches seminar series in Computational Sciences and Applied & Statistical Modelling
(posted Thursday August 31 2006, 11:56)

Wilfrid Laurier’s Faculty of Science has launched a monthly seminar series in Computational Sciences and Modelling. The series, sponsored in part by SHARCNET, will cover all areas of Computational Science and Applied & Statistical Modelling.
High Performance Computing "Critically Important" to Canada
(posted Thursday August 31 2006, 14:41)

Canada’s high performance computing industry is critical to the health of country, and more awareness and attention needs to be paid to its development, according to a new survey of industry experts.
Shrinking 20 years into 2 days: SHARCNET participates in national supercomputing initiative
(posted Thursday August 31 2006, 13:05)

SHARCNET has become part of Canada’s largest virtual supercomputer shrinking 20 years worth of biochemistry research into 2 days. The project is the third undertaking by the Canadian Internetworked Scientific Supercomputer (CISS), an initiative that harnesses the total research computing capacity in Canada to create a virtual supercomputer.
Call for Papers: HPCS 2005: The new HPC culture
(posted Thursday August 31 2006, 13:04)

HPCS 2005, the 19th international symposium on HPC systems and applications, will be hosted by SHARCNET at the University of Guelph, May 15-18, 2005. HPCS is a multi-disciplinary meeting to discuss new and exciting scientific and technical work involving High Performance Computing. Call For Papers
SHARCNET Fall Workshop 2004
(posted Thursday August 31 2006, 13:10)

SHARCNET’s Fall Workshop 2004 will be held October 13-15 at Wilfrid Laurier University. An optional bonus day, Introduction to High Performance Programming, will be held on October 12. This year’s workshop will feature expert talks on leading-edge computing hardware, tutorials on software such as libraries, and seminars and keynotes on fundamental HPC computing strategies.
SHARCNET announces $50M expansion, to be among top 70 in the world
(posted Thursday August 31 2006, 13:14)

Thanks to an investment from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and the Ontario government, confirmed this week, SHARCNET will be soon be among the world’s most powerful High Performance Computing (HPC) centres.