Compute Canada is proud to announce its Resource Allocation Opportunities for 2015. Compute Canada’s Advanced Research Computing (ARC) resources are accessible to researchers at Canadian academic institutions and may be accessed using the opportunities below. There are four components to this year's Resource Allocation Competition:

• Default Allocations 
• Fast Track (by invitation only)
• Resource Allocation Competition 2015
• Research...

Interested in expanding HPC use within your research? Not sure where to begin? Join us today for an introductory session that will provide an overview of WestGrid and Compute Canada, as well as walk through the basics of getting started with an account. Any faculty members and graduate students in any discipline who are interested in using high performance computing are invited to attend. 

Introduction to WestGrid
Speaker: Patrick Mann, Manager, Technical Operations, WestGrid
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On Thursday, September 18, Compute Canada will host its Annual General Meeting (AGM) to convene members and stakeholders to review its 2014 fiscal year and elect a new Board of Directors. The AGM will be held at 12:00 pm EDT at the Omni King Edward Hotel, 37 King Street East, in Toronto, ON.

Over the last year, Compute Canada has made great gains in its mission to serve as a national voice for advanced research computing and to build a platform,...

What is it?

No matter how careful we are during coding, we are prone to commit subtle errors that can cause our code to crash with a segmentation fault, produce wrong results and/or perform slower than expected. Tracking down these kind of errors is not an easy task and, as such, every software engineering development process has verification, validation, testing and debugging embedded in its activities. Although printing the values of different variables and timing the execution of parts of the...