Press Releases
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(posted Thursday July 08 2010, 15:34)
Industry Canada has launched a consultation process in order to develop a strategy for the digital economy. The details can be found at http://de-en.gc.ca. The site encourages submissions in response to the questions and issues raised by the government’s consultation paper and a number of submissions are already available on the web site. The site encourages participation and, in particular, encourages you to vote for or against particular ideas located in the âIdea Forumâ sections. Compute Canada has submitted an idea titled âTo Compete You Must Computeâ that describes the value and necessity of HPC to the digital economy. If the future of HPC in Canada is important to you – as a researcher, university staff member, student, or postdoc – please vote. This is an opportunity to raise awareness of HPC. The deadline for voting has been extended to July 13th. |
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(posted Tuesday June 08 2010, 07:42)
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 15th (note the deadline has been extended). Everyone who completes the survey will be entered into a draw for an iPod Touch. Your feedback is important to us! Results from the survey assist us in evaluating our success in meeting usersâ HPC needs and help us improve our services in the future. Summary results from previous surveys are also available via the web portal. |
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(posted Friday May 07 2010, 09:30)
SHARCNET is pleased to offer its preeminent training event: Summer School on High Performance and Technical Computing 2010. This is an annual event that provides students with an opportunity of learning and sharing the knowledge and experience in high performance and technical computing on platforms with the latest technologies. The five-day summer school, offering intensive courses on various subjects, will include lectures and computer labs with hands-on exercises on programming distributed and shared memory systems, as well as GPUs. Given the popularity of the host site last year, Summer School will be returning to the Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning, Oakville, Ontario, May 31-June 4. Please register for the event via the Summer School website. A printable poster is available for distribution. |
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(posted Tuesday May 04 2010, 14:47)
SHARCNET is pleased to announce âSHARCFest 2010â, our annual outreach campaign of workshops, conferences, and sponsored events to help educate the boarder community on the uses and importance of high-performance computing to research. Our premier event, SHARCNET Research Day 2010, will be held on May 6th at York University and includes two keynote talks by leading HPC researchers. The anchor event for SHARCFest will be our annual HPC Summer School scheduled from May 31-June 4 at Sheridan College. Visit the SHARCNET online calendar for more information or view the SHARCFest poster. |
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(posted Thursday April 29 2010, 10:23)
As part of its continuing outreach efforts, SHARCNET is pleased to be one of the sponsors of “MIND THE GAP” to be hosted by the University of Alberta and WestGrid from May 10-14, 2010. This will be a multidisciplinary workshop bridging the gap between High Performance Computing and the Humanities. |
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(posted Wednesday April 28 2010, 11:46)
SHARCNET has issued a call for Letters of Intent for Round II of SHARCNETâs Research Support Programmes: Dedicated Programming Support. The deadline for Round II LOIâs is May 31, 2010. |
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(posted Monday April 26 2010, 14:12)
In May 2010, approximately 500 of Canadaâs best and brightest high-school age young scientists will be coming to Peterborough, Ontario to participate in Canadaâs annual National Science Fair competition. SHARCNET is pleased to be one of the event sponsors. In challenge there is opportunity, and todayâs world has a myriad of challenges/opportunities that can be addressed with science and technology innovation. Science Fairs are the âincubatorsâ for fresh ideas, and an inspiration for many youth to take some important first steps which lead to future careers in science and/or business. The week long National Fair brings together the winners from regional fairs from across Canada, as well as over 500 judges and representatives from a number of supporting organizations and businesses. The Honorary Chair of the 2010 National Fair is Dr. Roberta Bondar. |
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(posted Thursday April 08 2010, 12:47)
Copper™ Combines Cloud and Grid Computing Technologies to Provide Unprecedented Ease-of-Use and Flexibility The GridCentric Copper™ platform enables real-time, on-demand sharing of high-performance computing resources and makes cluster administration a one-click task. With Copper™, organizations reduce IT expenditures through significantly lower installation and management costs, higher utilization of their physical infrastructure, and improved sharing of their data assets. Copper™ has been in limited trial on a SHARCNET compute cluster located at York University in Toronto, Canada since late 2009, and is now open to all researchers from SHARCNETâs 17 academic member organizations. More… |