Through ACENET and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada federation, Atlantic Canadian researchers in academia, industry, government and non-profits have access to advanced computing resources.
Used for complex numerical modelling, parallel computing, big data processing and analysis, machine learning/deep learning/artificial intelligence, and building platforms or portals in the cloud, the systems incorporate:
- State-of-the-art High Performance Computing (HPC) and storage systems
- Big data and data analytics tools and environments
- A cloud computing and development environment
- Leading edge Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) computing systems
- High speed, secure file transfer through the Globus Portal
- An extensive software library
- Stable and secure data storage and back-up options accessed via your desktop
National Systems
The national systems under the umbrella of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (DRAC) offer hundreds of thousands of CPUs, vCPUs, GPUs and vGPUs, and hundreds of petabytes of storage capacity. Featuring cutting-edge technology, they are available free of charge to research teams from post-secondary institutions.
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Atlantic Regional System (Siku)
Located at Memorial University, Siku (meaning “sea ice” in Inuktitut) is a 9000 core computing cluster that incorporates Intel Cascade Lake CPUs, a high-throughput, low-latency EDR Infiniband interconnect, AI-capable GPUs, a 1.5 PB parallel filesystem, tape back-up, and offers batch computing.
