Author: Ramses van Zon
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Trillium Pushes the Limits of Global Ocean Modelling
The group of Prof. Peltier of the University of Toronto, together and their collaborators, is using the Trillium supercomputer to develop a next-generation Massachusetts Institute of Technology general circulation model (MITgcm) global ocean simulation. This project will culminate in a run of the MITgcm with horizontal grid spacing of 1/96° (~1 km). It will be…
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Trillium Enables Discovery of a New Stellar Mixing Process
“We were able to discover a new stellar mixing process only because of the immense computing power of the new Trillium machine. These are the computationally most intensive stellar convection and internal gravity wave simulations performed to date.” —Falk Herwig, professor of physics and astronomy and director of ARC (University of Victoria) More on the role…
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New AI System Coming to SciNet
On November 28, 2025, the Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation Evan Solomon announced a $42.5M million grant for a new AI compute system has been awarded to the University of Toronto, to be hosted and operated by SciNet. This investment is funded by the Digital Research Alliance of Canada as part of Canada’s…
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International HPC Summer School 2025, July 6-11, Lisbon, Portugal
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…