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As part of its strategy for Advanced Research Computing and High Performance Computing in Canada, Compute Canada has conducted a site selection for four new systems. These systems are intended to replace and augment the currently aging computational systems available to Canadian academic researchers. Recognizing the diversity of ARC computing in academic research, Compute Canada…

The Compute Ontario Research Day 2015 will be held on Thursday, May 21 at the Cambridge campus of Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning. This will be a day filled with high performance computing related research done in Ontario. Have an interesting research story for which you used high performance computing (such as…

SciNet, SAS, the computer science department at Earl Haig Secondary School in Toronto, and NRC Research Press organized a Big Data Challenge for High School Students in 2014. Selected teams presented their analysis of a real data set of grocery purchases for the jury on Friday February 13, 2015. The winners were the team from…

Computing and software students at McMaster University created some stunning videos of fractals using the BlueGene/Q, one of the most powerful computers in the world, administered by SOSCIP and hosted by SciNet. Read the full articles on McMaster University’s Daily News’ or on HPC wire. The videos can be seen on YouTube. Details on the…

Apply by 9 March, decisions in early April Expenses paid by program Sponsored by PRACE, XSEDE, Riken, and Compute Canada website: http://summerschool.niif.hu Compute Canada/Calcul Canada invites students and researchers at Canadian post-secondary institutions to apply for one of 10 spots allocated to Canada for the fifth International Summer School on HPC Challenges in Computational Sciences.…

The recent announcements of continued IT infrastructure building in Markham (and across the other southern York Region municipalities of Richmond Hill and Vaughan) reflect an established data centre cluster in the area, including recognizable names such as IBM, Rogers, Compugen, OnX, and HP. Of particular noteworthiness is Vaughn-based SCINET—Canada’s largest supercomputer data centre—a High Performance Computing…

Any Canadian academic researcher may obtain a default allocation on any Compute Canada system, including those at SciNet, at any time by registering with the Compute Canada DataBase (CCDB) and requesting accounts at one or more consortia. The size of default allocations vary by system. A Principal Investigator who requires more than the default allocation…

Pioneer in rack-level IO consolidation and virtualization solutions at SciNet: SciNet at the University of Toronto Selects NextIO vCORE™ Express 2070 GPU Computing Solutions NextIO, the pioneer in rack-level IO consolidation and virtualization solutions, today announced that The SciNet Consortium at the University of Toronto has selected the company’s vCORE Express 2070 GPU systems to power…

HPC community converges at HPCS2010 Supercomputers help Canada address world’s top research challenges TORONTO – Canada’s supercomputing community, responsible for some of the country’s most exciting scientific discoveries and global research collaborations, will soon converge in Toronto to address how best to support some of the world’s greatest research challenges. HPCS 2010 (High Performance Computing…

SciNet will host the 24th annual High Performance Computing Symposium in 2010 HPCS 2010 will be hosted by SciNet in Toronto.  June 5-9, 2010 Workshops: June 5-6 Welcome Reception: June 6 Conference: June 7-9 www.hpcs2010.org