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March 31, 2010

High Performance Computing Community Invited to Gather at ORION Summit

"HPC" -- a search engine "for all that is unknown"

March 31 -- Canada's high performance computing leaders are inviting researchers and colleagues to join them at the annual ORION Summit in Toronto, April 13, 2010, for an overview of the latest advances in HPC In Canada and Ontario, and the critical research and discoveries made possible by this rapidly growing "cyberinfrastructure" for basic research and innovation.

If Google is a search engine for all that is known, then HPC is a search engine for all that is unknown. That's what Compute/Calcul Canada and Ontario's SHARCNET distributed computing consortium are hoping more Canadians become aware of. From researching the beginning of the world, to understanding climate change, to safeguarding us from pandemics, HPC and advanced networks are tools of the trade for Canadian researchers and their international collaborators.

Compute Canada and SHARCNET have collaborated with ORION to devote a full plenary session to the topic of this critical research infrastructure, featuring SHARCNET, the High Performance Computing Virtual Lab (HPCVL) based at Queen's University in Kingston, and SciNet at the University of Toronto. Compute Canada is a national organization that coordinates and promotes the use of HPC in Canadian research, and collaborates with HPC consortia across the country in building a national high performance computing platform.

The plenary is designed to show the innovation enabled by HPC and what researchers need to know to get started.

The discussion features a who's who of HPC in Ontario, with Susan Baldwin, Executive Director, Compute Canada, Dr. Hugh Couchman, Scientific Director of SHARCNET, and Dr. Paul Maxim, Associate Vice-President, Research and Professor of Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University and Chair of the Ontario High Performance Computing Council (OHPCC).

The session will also feature practical examples of how HPC is being used in actual research. Tom Woo, Associate Professor and Assistant Chair, Department of Chemistry, University of Ottawa, is one of the researchers who will illustrate how his research is enabled by high performance computing, and how essential HPC has become to research and discovery. His recent work involves the capture of CO2 to mitigate green house gas emissions. Susan Brown, a digital humanist and Associate Professor in literary and theatre studies at the University of Guelph, will also be presenting her research using HPC.

Learn more at www.orion.on.ca/summit2010.

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Source: Ontario Research and Innovation Optical Network

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