For Academics

SciNet provides researchers at Canadian institutions computational resources and expertise to pursue their research on scales not previously possible in Canada.   Academic researchers can make use of the computational resources, the expertise, or both.

To use SciNet’s computational resources, any qualified researcher at a Canadian university is eligible for an account on the SciNet systems.    Instructions for applying for an account can be found below on this website.   Resources include an x86 cluster running linux (one of the largest computers in Canada), a Power 6 system running AIX, a GPU cluster, and a Power 7 system running Linux.

All interested academic users may attend the SciNet Education and Training courses free of charge; generally a (free) SciNet account is required.

Non-SciNet users in the Toronto academic research community can also make use of SciNet resources by attending a SciNet Research Computing Consulting Clinic to make use of the expertise of the SciNet centre for their own research problems.

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For-Credit SciNet Course: “Scientific Software Development”

The first of SciNet’s for-credit courses (for Astronomy 3100 minicourse and Phys 2109 modular course credit) will start in November, and be held in SciNet’s conference room, at 256 McCaul street on the 2nd floor. Dates are Nov 4, 11, 18, and 25th, 9:30-11:30am on each Friday. The goal of the first course is to [...]
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Courses

SciNet’s HPC experts offer a variety of courses on high-performance technical research computing to the SciNet user community and to external partners.   Recent course offerings have included: GPU Computing Introduction to HPC Introduction to Parallel Computing Scientific Programming for Physical Sciences Parallel I/O Currently scheduled classes can be seen on our events page.
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Getting A Scinet Account

To use SciNet’s computational resources, any qualified researcher at a Canadian university is eligible for an account on the SciNet systems. Step 1: You must successfully register with the Compute Canada database (CCDB).   Note: Faculty members must register and obtain a CCRI identifier before any non-faculty members of their research group.  Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows must [...]
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SciNet Analysist Scott Northup works with users on issues of Parallel I/O [Credit: HPCS2010, SciNet, University of Toronto]

Research Computing Consulting Clinic

Thinking of starting a compute-intensive research project? In the middle of one but stuck on what technique or method to use? The experts at SciNet, Canada’s largest supercomputing centre, will have a consulting desk open monthly to all research members of the University community to help them design and make decisions about their computational research [...]
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