About SciNet

SciNet is Canada’s largest supercomputer centre, providing Canadian researchers with computational resources and expertise necessary to perform their research on scales not previously possible in Canada. SciNet powers work from the biomedical sciences and aerospace engineering to astrophysics and climate science. SciNet is part of Compute Canada, a national infrastructure for supercomputing-powered innovation, and is funded by CFI, NSERC, the Ontario Government, and the University of Toronto.

SciNet is a member of Compute/Calcul Canadacompute canada logo

You can find out more about us and our work on this webpage:

Technical information about our systems is available on our technical wiki, and descriptions of our computing resources can be found here.

 

Internal cables (Credit: SciNet, University of Toronto)

SciNet at a Glance

SciNet: Is Canada’s largest open supercomputing centre Operates two (and soon three) of Canada’s largest computers Headquarters downtown on University of Toronto’s St. George campus; data centre in Vaughan Runs one of Canada’s greenest data centres, taking full advantage of its size and Canada’s cold winters to cut power needed for cooling Once BG/Q is [...]
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A partial view of the SciNet datacentres, one of the most energy efficient in Canada.  [Credit: SciNet, University of Toronto]

Backgrounder: Supercomputing and SciNet

What is supercomputing? Supercomputing, or High Performance Computing, is using the largest computers available to tackle the biggest problems facing science, society, or industry. Whether generating computer models of unprecedented fidelity in the aerospace, biological or climate sciences, or analyzing vast amounts of data from astronomy, business data in industry, or textual or musical data [...]
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map of scinet area

Contact us

University of Toronto SciNet Consortium
256 McCaul Street, Room 235
Toronto, ON M5T 1W5
E: info@scinet.utoronto.ca
P: 416.978.2922
F: 416.978.2995
T: @SciNetHPC

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