Press Releases
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(posted Thursday August 31 2006, 14:34)
SHARCNET is pleased to welcome Zhenming (Jemmy) Hu to the position of High Performance Technical Computing (HPTC) Consultant. Jemmy holds a Ph.D. in Theoretical and Computational Chemistry from Kyoto University in Japan and a Masters degree in Computer Science from Dalhousie University. Jemmy will be based at the University of Waterloo, but his services will available to all community members. |
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(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. |
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(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. |
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(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. |
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(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. |
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(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. |
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(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 |
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(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. |