Press Releases
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(posted Thursday August 13 2015, 14:06)
The Resource Allocation Competition (RAC) is granted on a one-year basis and so applicants must re-apply for a new allocation every year. Any individual who is eligible to apply to national granting councils for funding is eligible to apply for an allocation. The RAC is open to projects from all disciplines, from humanities to engineering. The allocation requests are peer-reviewed and awarded based on scientific merit, quality of the research team, and development of highly-qualified personnel (HQP). Please note that people applying for RAC are NOT required to submit a letter of intent but just a full application with the information specified in the RAC 2016 Call for Proposals. More info
Important Dates: For more information on the RAC competition, please refer to the 2016 RAC Call for Proposals or visit the 2016 Resource Competitions page on the Compute Canada website. |
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(posted Thursday July 30 2015, 13:00)
Waterloo, Ontario-July 30, 2015. Compute Canada and its regional partners ACENET, Calcul Quebec, Compute Ontario and WestGrid will receive close to $75 million to renew and consolidate the national platform for advanced research computing. Funds will be received through the Canada Foundation for Innovation’s Cyberinfrastructure Initiative competition launched in 2014. The federal investment of $30 million leverages an additional $45 million in provincial and institutional support. Today’s announcement by Peter Braid, Member of Parliament for Kitchener-Waterloo at an event at the University of Waterloo is a major step forward for Canada’s advanced research computing infrastructure – an important component of Canada’s digital research ecosystem. This essential infrastructure and expert support directly supports the Canadian economy and science excellence. More info |
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(posted Tuesday June 09 2015, 09:22)
Researchers building platforms or portals to serve the needs of a community of users are invited to apply to Compute Canada’s 2016 Research Platforms and Portals (RPP) competition, which grants access to computing and storage resources on Compute Canada’s systems. Introduced in 2014, the RPP competition is targeted at applications that use platforms or portals to improve access to shared datasets, enhance existing online research tools and facilities, or advance national or international research collaborations. Resource allocations in this competition may be awarded over multiple years, up to a maximum of three years. The RPP competition is open to any researcher based at a Canadian academic institution who is eligible to apply for funding to the federal granting agencies. The RPP competition is delivered in two stages:
Groups are encouraged to use the RPP competition if their application falls within any of the following categories:
Full criteria details and submission guidelines are available in the RPP Competition Guide. Letters of Intent due by August 13, 2015. More info |
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(posted Tuesday June 02 2015, 13:35)
Compute Canada is pleased to announce its two pairs of scholarships for the 2015 Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) have been awarded to Gurpreet Singh, a graduate student at the University of Lethbridge, and his co-applicant James Desjardins, a SHARCNET High Performance Computing Consultant at Brock University; and Jonathan Armoza, a graduate student at McGill University, and his co-applicant Félix-Antoine Fortin, a Calcul Québec HPC Analyst at Université Laval. More info |
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(posted Friday May 29 2015, 11:23)
SHARCNET is pleased to announce the results of its Round VI 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 made to the following researchers:
SHARCNET plans to run another competition later this year. Please visit the DP website for more information. Congratulations to our Round VI awardees! |
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(posted Thursday May 28 2015, 15:49)
On May 21, 2015, Conestoga College hosted Compute Ontario Research Day at their newest campus in Cambridge. By all accounts, this year’s event was one of our most successful with over 120 attendees, 4 invited speakers, 16 contributed talks and 14 poster presentations. We were very pleased by the level of student participation, and want to extend a special congratulations to the “best-of” student winners: Grigoriy Kimaev for best student contributed presentation, and Tanyakarn Treeratanaphitak for best student poster presentation. Both students are from the University of Waterloo. This conference is the preeminent provincial high performance computing event at which professors, postdoctoral, graduate, and undergraduate students gather to learn about each other’s high performance computing related work. CORD2015 was a collaborative event organized by the Ontario HPC consortia, SHARCNET, SciNet, and HPCVL and the host site, Conestoga College. We also want to thank our sponsors, Compute Canada, Compute Ontario, and ORION, for making this event possible and supporting outreach to the HPC research community. |
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(posted Wednesday April 22 2015, 15:05)
SHARCNET is pleased to release its latest Spring 2015 newsletter issue, which is available online. Upcoming events are highlighted including Compute Ontario Research Day (CORD) which will be held on May 21st at Conestoga College and our annual, week-long installment of HPC Summer School. You can also read more about SHARCNET’s recently launched YouTube channel, which showcases our popular webinar recordings. Users are encouraged to check the SHARCNET website for more information on upcoming events and activities, or watch for our monthly community update which is emailed to our general mailing list. You can also follow us on twitter. |
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(posted Monday April 13 2015, 09:50)
Planning for HPC Summer School 2015 is underway. Summer School (west) which will be held at Western University, London, Ontario from May 25-29th. This five day summer school includes lectures and labs on programming distributed and multicore systems and various topics pertaining to scientific computing. Attendees will learn how to program distributed memory systems--networked computers--known as “clusters”, shared memory multicore systems and GPUs. Attendees will also have a chance to have a review on the basics of computing and techniques as well as software packages for applications in different disciplines. A long-running event for SHARCNET, Summer School was introduced to users over a decade ago. Summer School is now an Ontario-wide event which is organized in partnership by the three Ontario HPC consortia: SHARCNET, SciNet and HPCVL. Summer School (central) will run from July 13-17 at the University of Toronto, and Queen’s University will run Summer School (east) from July 27-31. Note that the courses offered by the three sites may be slightly different. Please check the site specific programmes for details. While there is no fee to attend Summer School, registration is required. |