Press Releases
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(posted Thursday April 05 2007, 08:13)
Some of Canadaâs top schools are collaborating this week in transmitting high-definition video over advanced networks, in an experimental installation spanning three cities and nearly 5,000 kilometres. The Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) joins Concordia University in Montreal and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver to concurrently broadcast a live high-definition video stream for 72 consecutive hours over Canadaâs regional advanced networks, including ORION in Ontario. |
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(posted Tuesday March 27 2007, 15:17)
Lindi Wahl’s ability to form mathematical models that predict the evolution of drug resistance in microbes has earned her this year’s Florence Bucke prize. Wahl, a SHARCNET researcher from the Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Western Ontario, says her investigations into the probability that a mutation could confer some benefit to a population started with some “beautiful mathematics from the 1920s-30s addressing these sorts of problems.” |
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(posted Monday February 19 2007, 10:42)
SHARCNET is issuing a call for proposals for Round VI of SHARCNET’s Research Support Programmes: Fellowships and Dedicated Resources. The deadline for Round VI is March 31, 2007. |
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(posted Thursday February 15 2007, 09:38)
UOIT partners with SHARCNET to spearhead deployment of groundbreaking technology for research collaboration. Thanks to its partnership in a leading high-performance computing network, the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT) is using groundbreaking technology to bring scientists and students from different locations across Ontario together to share important research ideas, and will soon be taking this technology to the classroom to maximize the learning experience for graduate students. |
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(posted Friday December 22 2006, 09:28)
Thanks to a major funding announcement from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council (NSERC), a further $88 million will be devoted to building our national high performance computing capacity that will benefit the entire spectrum of research in Canada. Along with matching contributions from provincial and industry sources, the total boost to HPC capacity will be closer to $180 million. |
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(posted Friday December 22 2006, 09:30)
Dr. Eliot Phillipson, President and CEO of the Canada Foundation for Innovation, was joined by Ms. Isabelle Blain, Vice-President, Research Grants and Scholarships on behalf of Dr. Suzanne Fortier, President of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), and the Honourable Peter Van Loan, President of the Queenâs Privy Council for Canada, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs and Minister for Sport, on behalf of the Honourable Maxime Bernier, Minister of Industry, to announce an investment of $88 million for the creation of the first ever pan-Canadian network of High Performance Computing (HPC) facilities, a national resource that will benefit the entire spectrum of research in Canada. |
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(posted Tuesday November 07 2006, 16:26)
CIPA, Canadaâs oldest and largest awards program in the field of information technology, presented a total of 24 awards for excellence before a black-tie audience of about 800 senior executives from across Canada during the 14th annual CIPA Gala Banquet, the largest celebration of IT-based innovation in Canada. |
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(posted Wednesday September 27 2006, 09:26)
LONDON, ON, Sept. 22 /CNW/ – The McGuinty government is supporting a leading-edge high performance computing (HPC) – sometimes called supercomputing – project that will help cultivate scientific knowledge and lead to quicker research breakthroughs in Ontario, MPP Chris Bentley announced today. |