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Contributions

One of SHARCNET's greatest strengths is its ability to pool resources from SHARCNET institutions such that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. When researchers contribute equipment to SHARCNET, both the researchers and SHARCNET benefit: SHARCNET assumes the responsibility of maintaining the equipment while contributors retain priority access, and the general pool of SHARCNET resources increases. Please see our contribution guidelines.

To date, the following researchers have contributed to making SHARCNET that much better:

  • McMaster University
    • Botton, Craig, Earn, Provatas, Wilkinson, Golding, Couchman, Higgs: Cat serial cluster ($300,000)
    • Provatas: Idra nodes 29-32 ($240,000)
    • Shi: Idra nodes 25-28 ($190,000)
    • Sills: GS160 upgrade ($245,000)
    • Kallin, Pelinovsky, Sorensen, Wadsley, Haskell, Boden: Wobbe Myrinet cluster ($650,000)
    • Couchman: Iqaluk ($50,000)
    • Ayers: 1024 more cores for Wobbie ($150,000)
    • Rubel: 20 nodes
  • University of Western Ontario
    • T. Stienbrickner: 4 ES40s ($250,000)
    • B. Ma: 2 ES45s ($200,000)
    • L. Wahl: 2 rx2600, 1 rx5670 ($150,000)
    • P. Rupert: 48 cpu AMD cluster ($100,000)
    • P. Guthrie: 8 cpu AMD ($34,000)
    • T. Peters (Robarts Research Institute): 1 ES45 ($100,000)
    • L. Lochner: 16 quad Opterons and 2TB fileserver ($90,000)
    • P. Rogan, J. Knoll: 16 servers ($120,000)
    • L. Stentoft: Goblin expansion, 20 nodes ($200,000)
  • Wilfrid Laurier University
    • G. Campolieti: 64 cpu Xeon cluster ($112,000)
    • Goussev, Melnik: Brown expansion, 5 nodes, Myrinet ($24,000)
  • University of Guelph
    • H. Eberl: SGI Altix 450 ($200,000)
    • M. Anand: 8 apple xserves ($40,000)
    • R. Wickham: 36 servers, 12 TB storage ($210,000)
    • C. Griswold: 22 servers w/528 cores, 10 TB storage ($200,000)
    • A. Gerzerlis: Copper Cluster ($250,000)
    • G. Taylor: Copper cluster, GPU nodes ($240,000)
    • G. Taylor: Graham expansion, 6 nodes, 24 GPUs ($200,000)
  • University of Waterloo
    • H. De Sterck: Gridbase database server ($8,000)
    • M. Gingras: Brown cluster, Intel Xeons, 80 nodes ($600,000)
    • J. Lin: Brown expansion, 34 nodes ($160,000)
    • N. Abukhdeir: Tembo cluster, 28 nodes ($160,000)
    • K. Lamb: Orca expansion, 32 nodes plus storage ($300,000)
    • I. Goldberg: Kraken expansion, 20 fat nodes ($1,000,000)
    • W. Golab: Hadoop test bed ($70,000)
    • K. Morris, A. Ghosdis: Brown expansion ($400,000)
    • A. Aboulnaga: Kraken expansion ($320,000)
    • A. Ghodsi: fat cluster nodes, Mosaic cluster ($115,000)
    • K. Morris: fat cluster nodes, Mosaic cluster ($300,000)
    • T. Oszu: Tembo expansion ($430,000)
    • P. Bernath/Canadian Space Agency: Tembo expansion ($124,000)
    • M. Stastna: Graham expansion, 26 nodes ($300,000)
    • J. Craig: Graham expansion, 12 nodes ($100,000)
    • R. Saari: Graham expansion, 8 nodes
    • L. Sandoval: Graham expansion, 8 nodes
  • University of Windsor
    • E. Kim: Tiger cluster, 5 DL585 servers ($100,000)
  • Ryerson University
    • C. Beauchemin: Goblin expansion, 5 nodes ($16,000)
  • Ontario Tech University
    • W. Smith: Brown expansion, 2 HP servers ($7,000)
  • Brock University
    • P. Liang: Global work storage expansion ($70,000)
  • University of Toronto
    • C. Becker: 4 nodes + storage