SHARCNET
ARC/HPC for Canadian Academics
The Shared Hierarchical Academic Research Computing NETwork is the culmination of the vision of several researchers in Ontario who sought to build a world-class High Performance Computing (HPC) environment to meet growing, and often unmet, HPC demands. SHARCNET includes a total of 19 academic partner institutions covering a geographical span of about 1,800 km from Windsor to Peterborough and from St. Catharines to Thunder Bay making it the largest HPC consortium in Canada by number of institutions.
Our mission
Facilitate the rapidly growing range of disciplines that must have access to HPC to be competitive.
Establish an environment for truly world-class computations.
Enable academic-industry partnerships for the benefit of research and to help develop new business opportunities.
Provide an HPC environment that will help institutions attract and retain the best students and researchers.
Encourage and generate a cadre of highly skilled personnel who can leverage HPC for the benefit of Ontario and Canada.
Meet our main cluster Nibi!
Nibi, the Anishinaabemowin word for water, is the successor of Graham and a general purpose cluster of 134,400 CPU cores and 288 H100 NVIDIA GPUs built by Hypertec, hosted and operated by SHARCNET at University of Waterloo. It is expected that Nibi will come online by July 1, 2025.
The data centre hosting the new cluster Nibi is currently under renovation. Due to the limits on available power and cooling capacity, a significantly reduced, small portion of the old cluster Graham will keep operating, yielding power to the new system Nibi’s acceptance testing and transition.
Our partners
SHARCNET is a partner organization of Compute Ontario and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada and works in collaboration with three other regional partners: ACENET, Calcul Québec and the West territory.
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