Press Releases
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(posted Monday January 14 2019, 13:49)
SHARCNET is pleased to announce the results of its Round XIII Dedicated Programming Support competition. The primary objectives of this program are to enable key research projects with the potential for exceptional and lasting impact that require significant programming support to proceed, and facilitate optimal exploitation of SHARCNET’s or Compute Canada’s computing infrastructure for internationally leading research. In this Round, programmer allocations have been awarded to:
SHARCNET plans to run another competition in the Spring of 2019. Please visit our DP website for more information. |
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(posted Wednesday November 21 2018, 15:01)
Terms like artificial intelligence and machine learning bring to mind machines that can think, yet scientists are still puzzled as to how the human brain makes judgements or triggers the simple act of blinking. One neuroscientist from the University of Waterloo has made significant progress in deciphering how those basic brain functions might occur. Dr. Chris Eliasmith is the director of the Centre for Theoretical Neuroscience where the globally renowned SPAUN brain model was developed. It is the world’s largest functional brain model that simulates 6.5 million neurons and is used to understand how the human brain works and how neurons communicate with one another. The large-scale brain model’s capabilities are quite outstanding with a digital eye for visual input, a simulated arm used to draw its responses and the ability to pass basic elements of an IQ test. More info |
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(posted Thursday October 25 2018, 14:38)
SHARCNET is issuing a call for proposals for Dedicated Programming Support Round XIII. For this round, applications are encouraged that satisfy the programme objectives and priority will be given to proposals that meet one or more of the following conditions:
Applications are submitted via SHARCNET’s webportal and are due by December 9, 2018 at 11:59 pm EST. Consultation with a SHARCNET HPTC prior to submission is required. Note that users must have a SHARCNET webportal account in order to access the online form. Due to the current workload of SHARCNET programming staff, only a limited number of proposals are expected to be awarded in this round. For additional information, please refer to the application guidelines. Questions should be addressed to research-support@sharcnet.ca. |
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(posted Thursday October 18 2018, 09:55)
Orca has been converted to the same software environment as Graham, and now requires your Compute Canada username and password. Software access and job submission works the same way as it does on Graham. You can connect to the new Orca via orca.computecanada.ca
The legacy SHARCNET software stack is still available and can be used by issuing the following two commands: Please report any software issues you find by email to help@sharcnet.ca On the new Orca you will have the same /home and /project data as you have on Graham. Because user ID numbers are different between SHARCNET and Compute Canada we must convert file ownerships before making /scratch available. All files will eventually be transferred for you and no scratch expiry will happen this month. Your old /home and /work are still available on the old Orca via orca.sharcnet.ca, dtn.sharcnet.ca and other SHARCNET clusters. |
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(posted Thursday September 06 2018, 15:44)
Starting Tuesday, August 21, 2018 at 7 a.m. ET, the power feed to SHARCNET’s main data centre is being upgraded. This will mostly impact Graham but it could also affect storage and general operations of other SHARCNET clusters. We will be posting status messages on our website. After the outage, on Aug 29th, we will be bringing the orca cluster back into operations with a new software stack. The cluster will be renamed to orca.computecanada.ca and it will have the same scheduler, software availability and storage as Graham. It will maintain unique /scratch storage but /home and /project will be the same storage as Graham. We will maintain a very small orca.sharcnet.ca for a few weeks for any users that need to move files. Please email help@sharcnet.ca if you have any questions. |
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(posted Tuesday July 17 2018, 09:54)
SHARCNET is pleased to announce the results of its Round XII Dedicated Programming Support competition. The primary objectives of this program are to enable key research projects with the potential for exceptional and lasting impact that require significant programming support to proceed, and facilitate optimal exploitation of SHARCNET’s or Compute Canada’s computing infrastructure for internationally leading research. In this Round, programmer allocations have been made to the following researchers:
SHARCNET plans to run another competition in the Fall of 2018. Please visit our DP website for more information. Congratulations to our Round XII awardees! |
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(posted Friday May 11 2018, 10:01)
SHARCNET is issuing a call for proposals for Dedicated Programming Support Round XII. For this round, applications are encouraged that satisfy the programme objectives and priority will be given to proposals that meet one or more of the following conditions:
Applications are submitted via SHARCNET’s webportal and are due by June 22, 2018 at 11:59 pm EST. Consultation with a SHARCNET HPTC prior to submission is required. Note that users must have a SHARCNET webportal account in order to access the online form. Due to the current workload of SHARCNET programming staff, only a limited number of proposals are expected to be awarded in this round. For additional information, please refer to the application guidelines. Questions should be addressed to research-support@sharcnet.ca. |
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(posted Wednesday May 09 2018, 13:56)
We are pleased to announce 2018’s Compute Ontario Summer School on High Performance Computing. The SHARCNET offering (West) is being held May 28 – June 1, 2018 at Western University. Register online NOW. Online registration is open until 23:59, Fri, May 25, 2018. A long-running event for SHARCNET, Summer School was introduced to users over a decade ago. Summer School is now an Ontario-wide event taking place at three campuses every year. Summer School Central will run June 11 – June 15, 2018 at the University of Toronto, and Queen’s University will host Summer School East from July 30 – August 3, 2018. Note that the courses offered by the three sites may be slightly different. Please check the site specific programs for details. While there is no fee to attend Summer School, registration is required. For more information, check out our Summer School preview. |