History
HPC in Canada
Dr. Mark Whitmore, one of ACENET's founders has co-authored a paper with Allan MacIsaac on the history of High Performance Computing in Canada. High Performance Computing in Canada: The Early Chapters is available from the "Physics in Canada" website.
The article appeared in the April-June issue of the journal, an issue dedicated to HPC and also containing articles by ACENET users David Clarke, Ivan Saika-Voivod and Peter H. Poole.
Dr. Whitmore was previously a Professor in Memorial's Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography. He is now the Dean of Science at the University of Manitoba.
Cluster Availability Dates
Timeline
- April 2006
- Brasdor commissioned
- Mahone commissioned
- May 2006
- First user accounts issued HPCS & ACENET launch @ Memorial
- Inaugural meeting of ACEmat at MUN
- July 2006
- Placentia commissioned
- August 2006
- Staff levels reach 8 full-time employees
- September 2006
- Staff levels reach 9 full-time employees
- November 2006
- Videoconferencing lab opens at UNB Fredericton
- December 2006
- Online user account application Videoconferencing labs open at StFX & MUN
- January 2007
- Videoconferencing lab opens at MtA Collaboration room completed at SMU
- Number of active ACENET user accounts exceeds 170
- May 2007
- 1st Annual Seminar Series – OpenMP for Researchers
- June 2007
- Inaugural meeting of AACI at Acadia
- Capacity Upgrades:
- Fundy upgraded to 192 cores
- Placentia upgraded to 464 cores
- Brasdor upgraded to 248 cores
- Mahone upgraded to 248 cores
- September 2007
- Inaugural meeting of ICC
- October 2007
- Number of active ACENET user accounts exceeds 330
- November 2007
- Staff levels reach 12 full-time staff
- February 2008
- Fundy Commissioned 1st Round of ACENET Fellowships issued
- March 2008
- Capacity Upgrades - ACENET surpasses 3000 cores
- Fundy upgraded to 608 cores
- Placentia upgraded to 680 cores
- Brasdor upgraded to 1076 cores
- Mahone upgraded to 560 cores
- Courtenay upgraded to 80 cores
- May 2008
- Staff levels reach 14 full-time employees
- 2nd Annual Seminar Series – MPI for researchers (Over 90 participants)
- June 2008
- Datacave Opening at Saint Mary’s Univerisity
- Number of active ACENET user accounts reaches 549