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10,000,000 Computations Served… and counting!
In the early hours of Sunday, Feb 5th, SciNet’s GPC supercomputer quietly performed its ten-mi
SciNet Helps Power Search for Higgs
The group of 30 U of T researchers, including 16 graduate students, has used the SciNet super-comput
Supercomputer: Magnetic Fields Keep Milky Way’s Central Black Hole Hungry – For Now
Largest Computer Simulation Peers into Dark Black Hole in Milky Way’s Centre Toronto, Aug 24,
SciNet at the University of Toronto Selects NextIO vCORE™ Express 2070 GPU Computing Solutions
Pioneer in rack-level IO consolidation and virtualization solutions at SciNet: SciNet at the Univer
Canadian Supercomputers Assigned Homework
Canadian Supercomputers Assigned Their Homework on Global Problems: Researchers Granted Time on Cana
Vaughan Citizen visits SciNet
“Anything that requires computing usually requires big computing these days, whether it’s modell
Torontoist visits SciNet
In July, Torontoist reporter Steve Kupferman and photographer Michael Chrisman took a tour of the su
Supercomputer Helps Telescope See Echos From the Big Bang
Toronto, June 9 /CNW/ – An international collaboration of scientists has announced the first r
The Graphic Results of Supermassive Black Hole Collisions
Toronto, June 8 /CNW/ - Abdul Mroue and Harald Pfeiffer may soon be crashing together black holes on
Making Biofuel Green and Clean
Largest supercomputer simulations of bio-jet-fuel will help make fuels clean and green TORONTO, Jun
Fighting disease, one molecule at a time
TORONTO, June 7 2010/CNW/ - Scientists at the Hospital for Sick Children are working to improve your
Seeing the Magnetic fields in Galaxy Clusters
Supercomputer’s New View of Virgo May Change Understanding of Cluster’s Cosmic History T
HPCS and ORION in the News
HPC community converges at HPCS2010 Supercomputers help Canada address world’s top research challe
The Bulletin: University of Toronto supercomputer among 20 fastest machines in the world
Link to the Bulletin article on SciNet Tuesday June 23rd 2009 http://www.news.utoronto.ca/media-rele
TOP500 Ranking: Net’s GPC ranks higher than previously forecasted
The SciNet GPC- iDataplex system, which had been forecasted to rank in the top 25, comes in at a sta
The Globe and Mail: Canada’s monster computer roars to life
Link to Globe and Mail article on Scinet Thursday June 18 2009: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/
The Toronto Star: U of T supercomputer probes origins of the universe
Link to Toronto Star article on SciNet Jun 18, 2009: http://www.thestar.com/article/652745 U of T su
CBC News: Toronto team completes Canada’s most powerful supercomputer
CBC News article on SciNet Thursday, June 18, 2009: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/06/18/te
TechKnowFile
Canada’s Fastest Supercomputers Daniel Gruner and Chris Loken, SciNet Consortium SciNet is a new H
IBM: Canada’s most powerful Supercomputer
Learn about how IBM and the University of Toronto’s SciNet Consortium built Canada’s mos
SciNet and the Intel Xeon 5500
“The Canadian Scinet machine is one of the first to use the newly launched Intel Xeon 5500.
IBM Maintains Top Spot
From HPCwire article: IBM Maintains Top Spot on Supercomputer List November 17, 2008 IBM Maintains
University of Toronto to Acquire Canada’s Most Powerful Supercomputer from IBM
System will process up to 360 trillion calculations per second, store 60 times more data than the Li
