What is SHARCNET?
SHARCNET (Shared Hierarchical Academic Research Computing Network) is a consortium of Canadian academic institutions who share a network of high performance computers. With this infrastructure SHARCNET enables world-class academic research.
SHARCNET aims to:- Accelerate computational academic research
- Attract the best students and faculty to our partner institutions by providing cutting edge expertise and hardware
- Link academic researchers with corporate partners in a search for new business opportunities
Currently SHARCNET includes 17 Universities and Colleges across Ontario and is one of seven HPC consortia in Canada that operates under the umbrella of
Compute Canada. Please visit SHARCNET to see the type of research SHARCNET supports.
Sheridan's SHARCNET Site Leader is: Ed Sykes. Please feel free to contact him at: (905) 845 9430 Ext 2490 or by:
ed.sykes@sheridanc.on.caWhat is HPC?
HPC (High Performance Computing) is the use of high-end computing resources (computers, storage, networking and visualization) to help solve highly complex problems, perform business critical analyses, or to run computationally intensive workloads that are in scale far beyond the tasks that could be achieved on today's leading desktop systems
What is Access Grid?
The Access Grid® is an ensemble of resources including multimedia large-format displays, presentation and interactive environments, and interfaces to Grid middleware and to visualization environments. These resources are used to support group-to-group interactions across the Grid.