Press Releases

Your feedback is important to us! SHARCNET is currently running its annual User Satisfaction Survey, to seek feedback from the user community on all aspects of our organization and operations. Users will find the survey within the SHARCNET web portal and are encouraged to respond by July 2nd.

Results from the survey assist us in evaluating our success in meeting users’ HPC needs and help us improve our services in the future. Summary results from previous surveys are also available via the web portal.

SHARCNET and ORANO have partnered to be industry co-sponsors at the Ontario College of Art and Design’s annual GradEx Gala. We are the host of the Interactive Media table at the gala dinner on May 6. Opening Night celebrations are the next evening, May 7. The 94th annual OCAD Graduate Exhibition is the highlight of OCAD’s academic year. It’s an inventive, often provocative, always fascinating event and a powerful magnet for the art, design and business communities, as well as the media and general public.

SHARCNET is pleased to announce “SHARCFest 2009”, our outreach campaign of open houses, training events and symposiums to help educate the boarder community on the uses and importance of high-performance computing to research. Over twenty events have been scheduled at various SHARCNET locations over the month of May, including an IBM Workshop on Cell Computing on May 4-5th, a second symposium on GPU and Cell computing on May 20th and our premier event, SHARCNET Research Day 2009, on May 21st. The anchor event for SHARCFest will be our annual HPC Summer School scheduled from June 1-5th at Sheridan College.

Visit the SHARCNET online calendar for more information or view the SHARCFest poster.

A new international competition called the Digging into Data Challenge was announced by four leading research agencies: the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) from the United Kingdom, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) from the United States, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) from Canada. The Digging into Data Challenge encourages humanities and social science research using large-scale data analysis, challenging scholars to develop international partnerships and explore vast digital resources, including electronic repositories of books, newspapers, and photographs to identify new opportunities for scholarship. Interested applicants must first submit a letter of intent by March 15, 2009. Further information about the competition and the application process can be found at www.diggingintodata.org

SHARCNET is pleased to announce the results of the Round IX competition for SHARCNET Fellowships. With $1.7m in funding requests from 85 applications, this was another competitive round.