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Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from institutions in Canada, Europe, Japan, Australia and the United States are being invited to apply for the 15th International High-Performance Computing (HPC) Summer School, to be held on July 6-11 in Lisbon, Portugal. This is an in-person, expenses-paid educational event for selected graduate students and early-career postdocs involved in…

On a rare visit to the SciNet data centre, CityNews reporter David Zura was granted a glimpse into the inner workings of one of Canada’s most powerful computing systems, Niagara.

Niagara went live for users in early 2018, and Mist in late 2019. They’ve served us well, running over 13 million jobs for over four thousand users. But the time has come to replace them. Thanks to a $52M investment by the Digital Research Alliance of Canada and Ontario’s Ministry of Colleges and Universities, we’re…