POWER - PARTNERSHIP - PERFORMANCE POWER partner being Hewlett Packard. A partnership SHARCNET is dedicated to building Canada’s SHARCNET, structured as a “cluster of with the Ontario Research and Innovation Optical knowledge-based economy. The SHARCNET clusters” across southwestern, central Network (ORION) has allowed SHARCNET to Chairs Program is designed to enable strategic and northern Ontario, is designed to meet deploy a high performance computing grid, faculty hiring and to attract world-renowned the computational needs of researchers which currently connects systems across the experts in a variety of fields to SHARCNET in diverse research areas and to facilitate consortium with a 10 Gb network, to facilitate institutions. The SHARCNET Fellowships the development of leading-edge tools increased collaboration and computationally- Program provides comprehensive matching for high performance computing grids. intensive research. funds to enable research and training at the The infrastructure is established so that undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral level. there are four primary resource centres SHARCNET is founded on academic-industrial located at the Universities of Western collaboration and is generously supported by SHARCNET researchers, over 1,000 national Ontario, Guelph, McMaster and Waterloo institutional members, private sector partners, and international groups, have reported success providing specific architectures designed and both federal and provincial governments. in a multitude of research areas, including to accommodate the range of user computational materials, mathematical finance, applications, plus a number of special bio-computing and HPC tools. purpose systems and labs situated across PERFORMANCE the consortium. SHARCNET’s expanded SHARCNET has the requisite infrastructure, infrastructure now has 20,000 processors networks, and resources to provide facilities and more than a Petabyte of storage. The for world-class computational research. infrastructure is available to all SHARCNET Development of an effective HPC culture, which users irrespective of where the equipment is a central element of competitive science, Thunder Bay High Speed Network is located. business and industry, drives SHARCNET’s philosophy. SHARCNET is committed to creating an HPC culture in Canada - a critical Sudbury North Bay PARTNERSHIP mass of people highly trained in computational Established in June 2001, SHARCNET techniques - by sponsoring technical workshops, ONTARIO is a consortium organization which now seminars and research colloquia across its sites. consists of 17 leading academic institutions To date, over 4,000 researchers, students, and Peterborough Guelph Oshawa in Ontario. Substantive computational private sector representatives have received Toronto facilities are provided across the training from SHARCNET HPC Consultants and Waterloo Oakville London Hamilton St. Catharines consortium by several computing industry System Administrators on high performance Windsor partners, with the primary computational computing and the applications of computational methods to research. SHARCNET Funding Canada Foundation for Innovation Ontario Government

Private Sector Partners Bell Canada: www.bell.ca Hewlett Packard: www.hp.com Nortel Networks: www.nortel.com our goals are to: Ontario Research & Innovation Optical Network: Accelerate the production of www.orion.on.ca research results to meet the Platform Computing: www.platform.com needs of researchers and industry Quadrics Supercomputing World: www.quadrics.com partners in today’s competitive Silicon Graphics: www.sgi.com fast-paced academic and business environments. Academic Partner Institutions The University of Western Ontario, London Attract and retain the best students, University of Guelph, Guelph McMaster University, Hamilton researchers and companies by Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo providing cutting edge computational University of Windsor, Windsor expertise and hardware. Fanshawe College, London Shared Hierarchical Academic Sheridan College, Oakville Link academic researchers and University of Waterloo, Waterloo Research Computing Network corporate partners in a search for Brock University, St. Catharines new business opportunities. University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa York University, Toronto Lakehead University, Thunder Bay Laurentian University, Sudbury Trent University, Peterborough Perimeter Institute, Waterloo SHARCNET is one of seven HPC OCAD University, Toronto computing Nipissing University, North Bay consortia in Canada that operates under the umbrella of Compute/Calcul Canada. tomorrow’s solutions

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