Press Releases
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(posted Tuesday March 30 2010, 16:22)
As part of its youth outreach efforts, SHARCNET was pleased to be a silver sponsor at the 40th Annual London District Science and Technology Fair. The event drew 186 students with 135 projects, representing 25 schools at this years event. |
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(posted Monday March 29 2010, 09:53)
The Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) has initiated a mid-term review of Compute Canada and the national platforms (HPC) fund to ensure goals and objectives are being met. The report has now been submitted and can be viewed from the Compute Canada website (www.computecanada.org). A series of town hall meetings will be scheduled at various locations across Canada to seek input from the researcher community on the medium and long-term strategies for Compute Canada. |
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(posted Monday March 15 2010, 11:51)
SHARCNET has issued a call for proposals for Round XII of SHARCNETâs Research Support Programmes: Large Dedicated Resources. The deadline for Round XII is April 30, 2010. |
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(posted Monday March 08 2010, 14:00)
SHARCNET and Compute Canada have partnered to be gold sponsors of ORION’s Summit 2010, taking place April 12-13, 2010 at the MaRS Discovery District in Toronto. The ORION Summit will be a celebration of achievements, bringing together leading researchers, scientists, educators and innovators to map out what researchers and educators will be able to do in the future, with cutting-edge advanced and collaborative technologies and new and exciting applications and services that will help place Ontario at the global vanguard of the innovation and knowledge-based economy. Compute Canada and SHARCNET have collaborated with ORION to devote a full plenary session to the topic of HPC. The plenary is designed to show the innovation enabled by HPC and what researchers need to know to get started. The discussion features a who’s who of HPC in Ontario, with Susan Baldwin, Executive Director, Compute Canada, Dr. Hugh Couchman, Scientific Director of SHARCNET, and Dr. Paul Maxim, Associate Vice-President, Research and Professor of Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University and Chair of the Ontario High Performance Computing Council (OHPCC). The session will also feature practical examples of how HPC is being used in actual research. Tom Woo, Associate Professor and Assistant Chair, Department of Chemistry, University of Ottawa, is one of the researchers who will illustrate how his research is enabled by high performance computing, and how essential HPC has become to research and discovery. His recent work involves the capture of CO2 to mitigate green house gas emissions. Susan Brown, a digital humanist and Associate Professor in literary and theatre studies at the University of Guelph, will also be presenting her research using HPC. Learn more at www.orion.on.ca/summit2010 |
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(posted Thursday March 04 2010, 10:36)
Please join us for SHARCNET Research Day 2010, to be held on May 6th, at York University. SHARCNET Research Day is the premier annual event at which SHARCNET professors, postdocs and graduate students meet to learn about each otherâs HPC-related research. The theme of the meeting is âHPC Innovation for Research.â We invite you and your research group to attend and present your HPC-related work. Pease visit the Research Day website to register for the event and to submit abstracts for oral presentations and posters. The event is free and lunch will be provided. SHARCNET Research Day 2010 will feature:
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A printable poster is available for distribution. |
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(posted Thursday January 14 2010, 14:20)
SHARCNET is pleased to provide information on HP Labs Innovation Research Program. The HP Labs Innovation Research Program is designed to create opportunities -- at colleges, universities and research institutes around the world -- for collaborative research with HP. Through this annual, open Call for Proposals, HP solicits your best ideas on a range of topics with the goal of establishing new research collaborations. Proposals are invited against targeted IRP Research Topics, and will be accepted via an online submission tool (the abstract deadline is January 29, 2010). They will be reviewed by HP Labs scientists for alignment with the selected research topic and impact of the proposed research. Awards under the 2010 HP Labs Innovation Research Program are primarily intended to provide financial support for a graduate student to assist the Principal Investigator conducting a collaborative research project with HP Labs. Consequently, awards will provide cash support for one year in the range of USD $50,000 to $75,000, including any overhead. For more information, visit www.hpl.hp.com/open_innovation/irp/. |
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(posted Tuesday December 22 2009, 13:57)
SHARCNET is pleased to announce the results of its newest competition for Small Dedicated Resources, also referred to as âSmall DRâ. See allocation details for more information. Congratulations to all the awardees! |
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(posted Friday December 18 2009, 14:32)
SHARCNET is pleased to announce the results of the Round XI competition for Dedicated Resources, also referred to as “Large DR”. See allocation details for more information. Congratulations to all the awardees! |