鲍鱼tv

ACENET is a consortium of universities in Atlantic Canada providing advanced computing resources, expertise and training to researchers from any discipline. We are the regional partner of Compute Canada, the umbrella organization responsible for Advanced Research Computing in Canada. Our resources include high performance, GPU and big data computing, storage, high-speed secure file transfer for terabytes of data, cloud environment development space, and specialized research portals. Our experts can help researchers define their computing needs, optimize and troubleshoot code, customize tools and manage advanced computing equipment. We also provide a wide range of general and customized training for researchers and students from novice to advanced, at both the individual and group level. For more information, please visit our .听

We invite you to review the following information from Compute Canada on the 2016 Research Platforms & Portals competition. This competition is intended to help researchers develop new, or support existing research platforms and portals. Letters of Intent are due by August 13th. Further details can be found below. If you are interested in applying, or would like further information, please email our technical support staff at support@ace-net.ca.听

CCDB Now Accepting Research Platforms & Portals Competition Letters of Intent聽

Deadline to Submit - August 13

Compute Canada is now accepting Letter of Intent (LOI) submissions for its Research Platforms and Portals (RPP) competition.听

颁濒颈肠办听聽to register / login to the CCDB to submit your LOI.

Who Can Submit?
The competition is open to any researcher based at a Canadian academic institution who is eligible to apply for funding to the federal granting agencies. Submissions are welcomed from applicants in any discipline who use platforms or portals to serve the needs of a community of researchers. Last year鈥檚 applicants ranged in background from the Humanities, to Physics, to Genomics, to Earth and Environmental Science.听.

Groups requiring computing or storage resources to support their platform or portal are encouraged to apply if their projects fall within any of the following categories:

• Resources requested on behalf of a large community of users that will be reallocated to individuals and small groups following the award.
• Applications that provide a public platform that will make use of Compute Canada computing or storage.
• Groups engaging in international agreements to provide multi-year computing or storage solutions based in Canada.
• Recipients of the Major Science Initiative from the Canada Foundation for Innovation.
• Groups that are providing shared data sets accessible using a third party (non-Compute Canada) interface.

What Should the LOI Include?
This stage of the competition is non-competitive and is used to ensure project alignment with the RPP competition rules. Submissions are generally one page, providing a high-level summary of the project鈥檚 rationale, operation and scope. Full details of the LOI criteria can be found in the . Successful LOIs will be invited to submit a full application.

Important Dates:

For more information on Compute Canada鈥檚 RPP Competition, please refer to our聽聽or visit the聽聽on the Compute Canada website.