Category: News

  • HPCwire: SciNet Launches Niagara, Canada’s Fastest Supercomputer

    HPCwire reports on the launch on the new supercomputer Niagara at Scinet.

  • Launch of the Niagara Supercomputer at SciNet

    The Niagara supercomputer was officially launched on March 5th, 2018. We were honoured by the presence and remarks of Reza Moridi (Ontario Minister of Research, Innovation and Science), Nizar Ladak (Compute Ontario President and CEO), Dr. Roseann O’Reilly Runte (CFI President and CEO), Prof. Vivek Goel (Vice-president of Research and Innovation at the University of…

  • Road to Niagara 3: Hardware setup

    This is the fourth of a series of posts on the transition to SciNet’s new supercomputer called “Niagara”, which will replace the General Purpose Cluster (GPC) and Tightly Coupled Cluster (TCS). The transition to Niagara will take place in the fall of 2017, and the system is planned to be available to users in early…

  • International HPC Summer School 2018 in Ostrava, by SciNet, XSEDE, PRACE and Riken

    International HPC Summer School 2018 in Ostrava, by SciNet, XSEDE, PRACE and Riken

    A High-Performance Computing Summer Institute July 8-13, Ostrava, Czech Republic Expenses-paid program Apply by February 13, 2018 Website: http://ihpcss18.it4i.cz Graduate students and postdoctoral scholars from institutions in Canada, Europe, Japan and the United States are invited to apply for the ninth International Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences, to be held July 8…

  • Road to Niagara 2: GPC Reduction

    This is the second of a series of posts on the transition to SciNet’s new supercomputer called “Niagara”, which will replace the General Purpose Cluster (GPC) and Tightly Coupled Cluster (TCS). The transition to Niagara will take place in the fall of 2017, and the system is planned to be available to users in early…

  • Road to Niagara 1: Tightly Coupled Cluster Decommissioned

    Road to Niagara 1: Tightly Coupled Cluster Decommissioned

    This is the first of a series of posts on the transition to SciNet’s new supercomputer called “Niagara”, which will replace our aging General Purpose Cluster (GPC) and Tightly Coupled Cluster (TCS). The transition to Niagara will take place in the fall of 2017, and the system is planned to be available to users in…

  • New Courses and New Initiatives for this Coming Semester

    New Courses and New Initiatives for this Coming Semester

    Excited about the beginning of a new academic year? We, at SciNet, certainly are! SciNet has created several new courses for this coming fall semester and we are really excited about that! Take a look at our education website to learn about all the courses and workshops that we will be offering. In addition to…

  • 2017 Compute Ontario Summer School Central

    The Compute Ontario Summer School on Scientific and High Performance Computing is an annual educational event for graduate/undergraduate students, postdocs and researchers who are engaged in a compute intensive research. Held geographically in the west, centre and east of the province of Ontario, the summer school provides attendees with the opportunity to learn and share…

  • Grand Opening of the ArcNet Space at MaRS

    On May 9, 2017, the Grand Opening of the ArcNet space took place (despite having moved a while ago). What is ArcNet? It is a space where expertise and support of Advanced Research Computing (the “ARC” in ArcNet) from three organizations come together. SciNet is the oldest of the three; It is the supercomputing consortium…

  • International HPC Summer School 2017 in Boulder, CO

    Apply by 6 March, 2017 Expenses-paid program Sponsored by PRACE, XSEDE, Riken, and Compute Canada website: https://confluence.xsede.org/display/IH17/International+HPC+Summer+School+2017 The eighth International Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences will be held from June 25-July 30, 2017, Boulder, Colorado, USA. This is an advanced summer school on High Performance Computing which targets graduate students who already…