Compute Canada, a national platform of advanced computing resources across the country, has announced the largest ever awards of supercomputing resources to researchers working in areas from biomedicine and brain function to aircraft and aviation fuel design. These competitively-awarded grants will help scientists across Canada better understand our world, and move towards developing tools and products to improve the lives of Canadians.
“High performance computing is transforming research in Canadian universities, hospitals and industry,” said Susan Baldwin, executive director of Compute Canada. “Advances in information and communications technologies have revolutionized virtually every field. Our scientists are creating entirely new ways of conducting research, accelerating innovation and discovery across Canada.”
“Our SciNet allocation is transforming the landscape of combustion and air pollution research in Canada,” said Professor Seth Dworkin, a researcher at the University of Toronto’s Mechanical and Industrial Engineering department. Dworkin studies the combustion of biofuels, aiming to make them into clean-burning substitutes for current aviation fuels.
“The expertise and computational resources at SciNet are helping us tackle problems of combustion-generated emissions using simulations of unprecedented size and accuracy. We’re learning more and more about the formation and nanostructure of atmospheric pollutants and are now able to apply that knowledge to the design of engines and alternative fuels.”
SciNet is one of seven regional consortia of universities and colleges across Canada with mandates to provide High-Performance Computing (HPC) resources to both their own academic researchers as well as other users across the country and international collaborations. SciNet was funded by the National Platform Fund (NPF) of the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and by the Province of Ontario as well as the University of Toronto’s Faculties of Arts and Science, Applied Science & Engineering, and Medicine.
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