2012 Compute Canada Allocations
February 22, 2012 in Uncategorized
Each year, Compute Canada awards a significant fraction of its computational resources through a grant competition to Canadian researchers; the 2012 award announcement can be found here on this site, and as a PDF here.
This is a complete summary of the resources awarded; a PDF version of this list is available here, and a more detailed description of the largest awards can be found here.
| Institution | Principal Investigator | Project Title | Allocation | Market Value | |
| Acadia University | Richard Karsten | Numerical Simulations of Tidal Flow with applications to Tidal Energy Development | 842,000 processor hours 1 TB storage |
$81,175 | |
| Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care | Tomas Paus | Trans-generational Brain & Body Network | 1,534,000 processor hours 105 TB storage |
$274,931 | |
| Compute Canada | Kirk Bevan | Computational Design of Nanoelectronic Materials | 1,753,000 processor hours 3 TB storage |
$170,242 | |
| Concordia University | Clement Lam | Computation of the van der Waerden number w(3,4) | 1,140,000 processor hours 4 TB storage |
$113,180 | |
| Marius Paraschivoiu | Aerodynamic Simulation of Vertical Axis Wind Turbines | 701,000 processor hours | $66,620 | ||
| Gilles Peslherbe | Application of Quantum Chemistry and Molecular Dynamics Simulations to Materials, Solvation and Biophysics | 2,209,000 processor hours 7 TB storage |
$218,467 | ||
| Guillaume Lamoureux | Two projects: Large-scale dynamics of metalloproteins and ammonia transport in membrane proteins | 3,708,000 processor hours 5 TB storage |
$358,406 | ||
| Dalhousie University | Christopher Beaumont | Modelling the three-dimensional dynamics of geological systems: From sub-sea salt to the Himalayan peaks | 955,000 processor hours | $90,770 | |
| Dalhousie University | Stanimir Bonev | Matter under extreme conditions: first principles theory and applications | 8,766,000 processor hours 20 TB storage |
$857,360 | |
| École de Technologie Supérieure | Azzeddine Soulaïmani | Modélisation de l’écoulement dans les turbines hydrauliques complétes | 281,000 processor hours 4 TB storage |
$31,570 | |
| École Polytechnique | Alain Rochefort | Propriétés électroniques et structurales de matériaux électroactifs organiques | 1,324,000 processor hours 6 TB storage |
$133,128 | |
| François Bertrand | Modélisation d’écoulements de fluides et de solides pour les procédés de | 3,638,000 processor hours | $345,592 | ||
| Michel Meunier | Nanoplasmonics for cell nanosurgery and surface nanopatterning | 526,000 processor hours 2 TB storage |
$52,426 | ||
| Hospital for Sick Children | Régis Pomès | Computational Studies of Biomolecular Structure and Function | 116,515,000 processor hours 296 TB storage |
$11,433,145 | |
| John Parkinson | Evolution and operation of host-pathogen relationships | 929,000 processor hours 2 TB storage |
$90,733 | ||
| McGill University | Alan Evans | The CBRAIN Neuroinmaging Platform | 3,682,000 processor hours 27 TB storage |
$382,978 | |
| Yi Huang | A GCM-based satellite simulator | 877,000 processor hours 10 TB storage |
$95,580 | ||
| McGill University | Daniel Kirshbaum | Cloud-resolving modelling of cumulus convection over complex terrain | 438,000 processor hours 1 TB storage |
$42,868 | |
| Hong Guo | Computational modeling of nano-scale electronic devices | 9,178,000 processor hours | $871,890 | ||
| Warren Gross | Monte-Carlo Simulation of Hardware Optimized Error-Correcting Decoders | 964,000 processor hours | $91,603 | ||
| Victoria Kaspi | Large-Scale Galactic Surveys for Radio Pulsars | 10,519,000 processor hours 13 TB storage |
$1,015,297 | ||
| Guillaume Bourque | High-performance computing for high-throughput sequencing and genetic studies | 877,000 processor hours 250 TB storage |
$390,892 | ||
| Eric Galbraith | Fundamental Controls on Earth System Dynamics | 1,341,000 processor hours 4 TB storage |
$132,333 | ||
| Wagdi Habashi | Development of Massively Parallel Multi-disciplinary CFD | 4,164,000 processor hours 2 TB storage |
$398,018 | ||
| Luc Mongeau | High Fidelity Large Eddy Simulation for Aeroacoustics Applications | 2,428,000 processor hours 27 TB storage |
$263,895 | ||
| McMaster University | Alison Sills | Formation and evolution of star-forming cores in giant molecular clouds | 3,629,000 processor hours 12 TB storage |
$359,525 | |
| Memorial University of Newfoundland | John Whitehead | A Simulation Study of Ordered 3D Arrays of Magnetic Nanoparticles | 2,104,000 processor hours 0.5 TB storage |
$200,475 | |
| Ouranos | Anne Frigon | Production d’un ensemble de simulations climatiques régionales à trés haute résolution à Ouranos | 3,945,000 processor hours 35 TB storage |
$417,804 | |
| Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics | Luis Lehner | Electromagnetic and gravitational signals from compact binaries: Neutron Stars and Black Holes | 5,259,000 processor hours 20 TB storage |
$524,260 | |
| Queen’s University | Tucker Carrington | Towards a potential for liquid water; rovibrational spectra of methane and CH5+; and non-product interpolants for solving the Schroedinger equation. | 535,000 processor hours 3 TB storage |
$54,489 | |
| Art McDonald | Simulations and Analysis for Dark Matter and Neutrino Experiments | 877,000 processor hours 10 TB storage |
$95,580 | ||
| Royal Military College of Canada | Xiaohua Wu | Very-large-scale direct numerical simulation of aeronautical flows | 4,488,000 processor hours 35 TB storage |
$469,435 | |
| Simon Fraser University | George Kirczenow | Theoretical Studies of Nanoscale Systems | 2,761,000 processor hours 1 TB storage |
$263,547 | |
| Steven Jones | Molecular dynamics structure modeling of SHC protein in RET-driven cancers | 3,506,000 processor hours 4 TB storage |
$338,022 | ||
| Simon Fraser University | Peter Borwein | IRMACS | 842,000 processor hours 30 TB storage |
$116,858 | |
| Noham Weinberg | Theoretical studies of kinetic effects of high pressure and high viscosity | 2,104,000 processor hours | $199,860 | ||
| Fiona Brinkman | Bioinformatics for Combating Infectious Diseases | 526,000 processor hours 60 TB storage |
$123,793 | ||
| Michael Eikerling | Computational Modeling of Electrochemical Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage | 2,463,000 processor hours 8 TB storage |
$243,847 | ||
| Mirza Faisal Beg | Early Detection of Alzheimers and discrimination from other dementias using high dimensional morphometric features | 1,166,000 processor hours 10 TB storage |
$123,061 | ||
| Saint Mary’s University | Robert Thacker | Galactic disk dynamics in the Gaia era | 2,498,000 processor hours 10 TB storage |
$249,639 | |
| TRIUMF | Reda Tafirout | The ATLAS Experiment: Investigation of Fundamental Interactions and the Structure of Matter by the Study of Very High Energy proton-proton Collisions at the CERN Large Hadron Collider | 17,733,000 processor hours 2614 TB storage |
$4,901,101 | |
| Arthur Olin | TWIST | 65 TB storage | $79,980 | ||
| TRIUMF | Gregory Hackman | Gamma-Ray Spectrsocopy at ISAC | 20 TB storage | $24,609 | |
| Université de Montréal | Yoshua Bengio | Deep Learning Algorithms | 1,964,000 processor hours 19 TB storage |
$209,915 | |
| Pierre L’Ecuyer | Random Number and Quasi-Random Number Generators, and Simulation of Stochastic Systems | 394,000 processor hours 1 TB storage |
$38,704 | ||
| Laurent Lewis | Physical properties of advanced materials – from the atom to large-scale structures | 3,945,000 processor hours 7 TB storage |
$383,351 | ||
| Nicolas Lartillot | Modéles Bayésiens de génomique évolutive par Chaénes de Markov Monte Carlo | 5,259,000 processor hours 3 TB storage |
$503,342 | ||
| Michel Côté | Calculs de structure électronique des supraconducteurs, nanotubes et polyméres | 10,519,000 processor hours | $999,301 | ||
| Radu Iftimie | Proton transfer reactions in chemistry and biochemistry | 2,498,000 processor hours 6 TB storage |
$244,717 | ||
| Normand Mousseau | Simulations de matériaux complexes | 9,642,000 processor hours 15 TB storage |
$934,483 | ||
| Hervé Philippe | Phylogenomique et Modelisation de L’Evolution des Proteines | 701,000 processor hours | $66,620 | ||
| Université de Montréal | Paul Charbonneau | Simulations magnétohydrodynamiques de la convection solaire | 1,315,000 processor hours 6 TB storage |
$132,295 | |
| Guy Rouleau | High Throughput Sequencing | 1,315,000 processor hours 25 TB storage |
$155,674 | ||
| Université de Sherbrooke | Andre Dieter Bandrauk | Molecules in Intense Laser Fields-FAZSST-Femto-Atto-Zepto-Second Simulations and Theory | 73,247,000 processor hours 141 TB storage |
$7,131,963 | |
| Yannick Huot | Classification océanique automatisée des provinces bio-optiques par télédétection | 1,052,000 processor hours 30 TB storage |
$136,844 | ||
| André-Marie Tremblay | Strong coupling physics in high-temperature superconductors and layered organic superconductors | 5,996,000 processor hours 2 TB storage |
$572,063 | ||
| Alexandre Blais | Optique quantique et information quantum avec qubits supraconducteurs | 298,000 processor hours | $28,314 | ||
| David Poulin | Simulations numétiques pour informatique quantique théorique | 657,000 processor hours | $62,456 | ||
| Claude Legault | Computational Organic Chemistry: Understanding the origin of selectivity | 351,000 processor hours 1 TB storage |
$34,541 | ||
| Université de Sherbrooke | Eli Zysman-Colman | Modeling the Excited State Behaviour of Luminescent Organometallic Complexes for Visual Display Applications | 263,000 processor hours 2 TB storage |
$27,443 | |
| David Sénéchal | Méthodes d’amas quantiques pour les systémes fortement corrélés | 421,000 processor hours | $39,972 | ||
| Martin Aube | Modélisation de la premiére réserve internationale de ciel étoilé du Mont-Mégantic | 438,000 processor hours | $41,638 | ||
| Noureddine Atalla | Modélisation de la réponse vibroacoustique et aéroacoustique de structures complexes multimatériaux | 526,000 processor hours 2 TB storage |
$52,426 | ||
| Armand Soldera | Approche multi-échelles appliquée à l’étude des transitions de phases | 2,367,000 processor hours 5 TB storage |
$230,995 | ||
| Hugo Larochelle | Learning Algorithms for Deep Architecture Systems | 482,000 processor hours 12 TB storage |
$60,567 | ||
| Pierre Harvey | Prédiction d’Effets Antennes de Biomimiques Photosynthétiques | 877,000 processor hours 4 TB storage |
$88,197 | ||
| Université de Sherbrooke | Patrice Masson | Uncertainty quantification and propagation in a spectral element simulation of guided waves propagation for structural health monitoring applications. | 281,000 processor hours 5 TB storage |
$32,800 | |
| Stephane Moreau | Direct noise predictions for transport applications | 5,259,000 processor hours 35 TB storage |
$542,717 | ||
| Yves Dory | Conception de Nanotubes et Nanosphéres Supramoléculaires | 438,000 processor hours | $41,638 | ||
| Université du Québec à Montréal | Alessandro Forte | Terrestrial Thermal Convection Modelling with Earth-like Time Scales & Physical Properties: Reconstructing the Past Evolution of our Planet | 2,244,000 processor hours 2 TB storage |
$215,645 | |
| Pierre Gauthier | A Canadian Earth System Numerical Research Laboratory | 4,383,000 processor hours 150 TB storage |
$600,946 | ||
| Université Laval | Faïçal Larachi | Collector’s selection and optimization to account for ores mineralogy in flotation processes | 526,000 processor hours 5 TB storage |
$56,117 | |
| Guy Dumas | Optimization Studies through CFD for Green Energy Production Systems and Propulsion | 3,068,000 processor hours 20 TB storage |
$316,072 | ||
| Université Laval | Patrick Lague | Molecular modelling of peptides and proteins playing key roles in bacterial and viral infections | 2,411,000 processor hours 10 TB storage |
$241,311 | |
| Sophie LaRochelle | Modeling and simulation of photonic lightwave circuits in SOI | 263,000 processor hours | $24,983 | ||
| Christian Gagné | Ingénierie de systémes intelligents distribués | 421,000 processor hours | $39,972 | ||
| Jacques Corbeil | Massively paralleled computational approches for genomics | 2,191,000 processor hours 40 TB storage |
$257,407 | ||
| Claire Deschenes | Numerical and experimental investigations of low-head turbines hydrodynamic for generation of greener hydro-electricity | 877,000 processor hours 8 TB storage |
$93,119 | ||
| University Health Network | Frances Skinner | Inhibitory Cells and Networks in Hippocampus | 2,770,000 processor hours 5 TB storage |
$269,302 | |
| University of Alberta | Andriy Kovalenko | Theory, modeling and simulation on multiple space and time scales for rational design in nanochemistry, nanoelectronics, nanomaterials, energy and health applications | 16,155,000 processor hours 3 TB storage |
$1,538,451 | |
| University of Alberta | Gane Ka-Shu Wong | 1000 Plants / Viral Metagenomics | 438,000 processor hours 11 TB storage |
$55,173 | |
| Duane Szafron | Computer Poker Research | 1,753,000 processor hours 40 TB storage |
$215,769 | ||
| Paul Myers | Development of an Ocean/Sea-Ice Modelling Capacity for Marine Forecasting | 351,000 processor hours 30 TB storage |
$70,224 | ||
| Gino DiLabio | Fixing the Dispersion Problem in Density-Functional Theory Methods | 2,516,000 processor hours | $239,000 | ||
| University of British Columbia | Hirohisa Tanaka | The Tokai-to-Kamioka Experiment | 6,443,000 processor hours 400 TB storage |
$1,104,259 | |
| Douglas Bryman | Rare Decay Experiments and Applied Physics Projects | 701,000 processor hours 250 TB storage |
$374,237 | ||
| Gren Patey | Computer Simulation of Molecular Systems | 2,630,000 processor hours | $249,825 | ||
| Mark Thachuk | Dynamics of Gas Phase Ions | 2,104,000 processor hours | $199,860 | ||
| Joerg Rottler | Predicting the properties of complex materials from molecular simulations | 1,052,000 processor hours | $99,930 | ||
| Holger Hoos | Automated Configuration of Heuristic Algorithms from Components | 3,506,000 processor hours 1 TB storage |
$334,331 | ||
| University of British Columbia | Steven Plotkin | Computational solutions for the structural and dynamic origins of protein misfolding and biomolecular electromagnetic sensing | 2,665,000 processor hours 1 TB storage |
$254,387 | |
| Ingrid Stairs | Renewal of radio telescope pulsar data repository | 7 TB storage | $8,613 | ||
| Matthew Choptuik | Problems in Computational Relativity | 1,972,000 processor hours 44 TB storage |
$241,510 | ||
| Gregory Lawrence | Modeling of hydrodynamic instability, turbulence and mixing | 736,000 processor hours 41 TB storage |
$120,400 | ||
| University of Calgary | Peter Tieleman | Computational studies of biological membranes | 39,446,000 processor hours 150 TB storage |
$3,931,950 | |
| Arvi Rauk | Ab Initio and Empirical Study of the Chemistry of Alzheimer’s disease | 2,191,000 processor hours 15.5 TB storage |
$227,260 | ||
| Tom Ziegler | Theoretical Inorganic Chemistry and New Computational Methods | 1,227,000 processor hours 2 TB storage |
$119,046 | ||
| Dennis Salahub | Multiscale modeling of complex systems: i) systems biology ii) in-situ catalysis for sustainable energy | 8,766,000 processor hours | $832,751 | ||
| University of Calgary | Sergei Noskov | Theoretical Models of Solute Transport Across Biological Membranes. | 11,396,000 processor hours 70 TB storage |
$1,168,709 | |
| Carey Williamson | ELISA storage | 25 TB storage | $30,762 | ||
| University of Guelph | Susan Brown | 60 TB Storage for the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory | 60 TB storage | $73,828 | |
| University of Lethbridge | Hans-Joachim Wieden | Molecular Dynamics of Translation Factors | 394,000 processor hours 15 TB storage |
$55,931 | |
| University of Manitoba | Scott Ormiston | Detailed Two-Phase Flow Predictions of Film Condensation in Heat Exchanger Applications | 2,630,000 processor hours 2 TB storage |
$252,286 | |
| Bob McLeod | A Novel Agent Based Modelling Platform for Public Health Decision Support | 1,841,000 processor hours 1 TB storage |
$176,108 | ||
| University of Northern British Columbia | Brian Menounos | High resolution dynamical downscaling for assessing change in glacier mass | 1,473,000 processor hours 30 TB storage |
$176,816 | |
| University of Ottawa | Thomas Brabec | Bridging the microscopic and macroscopic realms of laser-driven plasma physics | 3,156,000 processor hours | $299,790 | |
| Tom Woo | Virtual Screening of Advanced Materials for Clean Energy Applications | 8,328,000 processor hours 5 TB storage |
$797,266 | ||
| University of Saskatchewan | Tomasz W. Wysokinski | Biomedical Imaging and Therapy Facility | 15 TB storage | $18,457 | |
| Yuanming Pan | Theoretical modeling of defects in minerals and other Earth and planetary materials | 2,972,000 processor hours 2 TB storage |
$284,764 | ||
| Kathryn McWilliams | SuperDARN (Canadian Space Science Data Portal) | 10 TB storage | $12,305 | ||
| John Tse | Materials Science under Extreme Conditions | 728,000 processor hours 20 TB storage |
$93,728 | ||
| Barbara Szpunar | Simulations of properties of nuclear materials | 438,000 processor hours | $41,638 | ||
| Chris Soteros | Knot Reduction for a Lattice Model of Strand Passage with applications to DNA Topology | 307,000 processor hours 20 TB storage |
$53,756 | ||
| University of Toronto | Radhakrishnan Mahadevan | Application of Grid Computers to Sustainable Uranium Bioremediation in Subsurface | 561,000 processor hours 2 TB storage |
$55,757 | |
| David Zingg | High-fidelity numerical optimization for future aircraft design | 28,577,000 processor hours 2 TB storage |
$2,717,229 | ||
| Richard Peltier | Atmospheric and geophysical Fluid Dynamics | 12,710,000 processor hours 370 TB storage |
$1,662,762 | ||
| University of Toronto | Ue-Li Pen | Computational Cosmology | 34,011,000 processor hours 345 TB storage |
$3,655,586 | |
| Clinton Groth | Multi-Scale Adaptive Modelling and Numerical Methods for Turbulent Reactive Flows | 21,915,000 processor hours 30 TB storage |
$2,118,792 | ||
| Chandra Veer Singh | Understanding failure mechanisms in novel nano-structured material systems | 5,259,000 processor hours | $499,651 | ||
| Raymond Kapral | Mesoscopic Dynamics of Protein Machines and Nanomotors | 4,471,000 processor hours 10 TB storage |
$437,008 | ||
| John Polanyi | Atomic Motions Underlying Chemical Reaction | 2,104,000 processor hours | $199,860 | ||
| Patrick Brown | Spatio-temporal modelling and mapping of disease risk | 3,243,000 processor hours | $308,118 | ||
| Ulrich Fekl | Quantum Chemistry for Catalysis and Non-Linear Optics | 386,000 processor hours | $36,641 | ||
| Hue Sun Chan | Order and Disorder in Protein Folding and Interactions | 6,732,000 processor hours | $639,553 | ||
| Sabine Stanley | Numerical Simulations of Planetary Dynamos | 2,744,000 processor hours 4 TB storage |
$265,573 | ||
| University of Toronto | Nasser Ashgriz | Large Eddy Simulation of a Liquid Jet Atomization in Crossflow | 2,481,000 processor hours | $235,669 | |
| John Dubinski | Interacting Galaxies in the Universe | 3,901,000 processor hours | $370,574 | ||
| Hans-Arno Jacobsen | Large-Scale Publish/Subscribe-Based Event Processing and Content Dissemination | 526,000 processor hours 1 TB storage |
$51,196 | ||
| Edward Sargent | Modeling of reduced-dimensionality semiconductors and their surfaces | 561,000 processor hours | $53,296 | ||
| J. Richard Bond | CMB, Early Universe, and Large Cosmic Structures | 13,149,000 processor hours 35 TB storage |
$1,292,193 | ||
| Murray Thomson | Parallel Solution of Particle Formation in Chemically Reacting Flow Problems | 11,799,000 processor hours 2 TB storage |
$1,123,344 | ||
| Paul Kushner | Characterizing Uncertainty of Climate Variability and Change across Spatial Scales | 3,769,000 processor hours 90 TB storage |
$468,825 | ||
| Aimy Bazylak | High-performance computing for clean energy and emissions-reduction applications | 991,000 processor hours | $94,101 | ||
| University of Toronto | Harald Pfeiffer | Numerical studies of compact object binaries and data-analysis of gravitational wave detectors | 23,405,000 processor hours 150 TB storage |
$2,408,015 | |
| Joaquim Martins | High-Fidelity Multidisciplinary Design Optimization for the Next Generation of Aircraft | 6,311,000 processor hours 2 TB storage |
$602,042 | ||
| Dylan Jones | Understanding the impact of global climate change on the atmospheric circulation over southern Africa | 140,000 processor hours 5 TB storage |
$19,476 | ||
| Qinya Liu | Full 3D Seismic Imaging of the Earth’s Interior | 316,000 processor hours 18 TB storage |
$52,127 | ||
| Norman Murray | Star Formation, radiative feedback, and radiating accretion flows | 3,699,000 processor hours | $351,421 | ||
| University of Victoria | Christopher Pritchet | Canadian Advanced Network for Astronomical Research | 4,383,000 processor hours 1000 TB storage |
$1,646,844 | |
| Andrew Weaver | Simulations using the UVic Earth System Climate Model | 1,096,000 processor hours 5 TB storage |
$110,246 | ||
| John Fyfe | Understanding the Role of the Southern Ocean in Global Climate Change Using High Resolution Modelling | 1,052,000 processor hours 10 TB storage |
$112,235 | ||
| University of Victoria | Adam Krawitz | fMRI for Cognitive Neuroscience at the University of Victoria | 5 TB storage | $6,152 | |
| Benoît Pirenne | Improved access and processing for data from the NEPTUNE Canada and VENUS cabled ocean observatory | 100 TB storage | $123,047 | ||
| Arif Babul | Computing the Universe: Unified Modeling of the Evolution of Galaxies and Hot Diffuse X-ray Emitting Gas in Group and Cluster Environments | 2,630,000 processor hours 9 TB storage |
$260,900 | ||
| Falk Herwig | Simulations for stellar physics and nuclear astrophysics | 3,270,000 processor hours 24 TB storage |
$340,147 | ||
| Ned Djilali | Modeling of PEM Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Dispersion | 701,000 processor hours 2 TB storage |
$69,081 | ||
| Boualem Khouider | Numerical models for tropical convection and related topics | 1,315,000 processor hours 10 TB storage |
$137,217 | ||
| Stephen Neville | Study of large scale mobile networks, peer-to-peer networks, and computing cloud behaviours | 394,000 processor hours 5 TB storage |
$43,626 | ||
| University of Waterloo | Edward Sudicky | Development and application of an integrated high-performance computational framework to analyze the impact of climate change on Canadian water resources | 500,000 processor hours | $47,467 | |
| University of Windsor | Robin Gras | Analysis of a predator-prey evolving ecosystem simulation | 920,000 processor hours 65 TB storage |
$167,419 | |
| University of Winnipeg | Seyed Moghadas | Strategies for Protecting Vulnerable Canadian Populations from Emerging Infectious Diseases | 1,832,000 processor hours 10 TB storage |
$186,350 | |