Ontario Service Providers

In Ontario, the largest providers of DRI resources are four consortia based at universities and hospitals. These academic consortia support two of the country’s current five national DRI platforms: Trillium (at the University of Toronto) and Nibi (at the University of Waterloo). They play an essential role in providing access to systems, programming expertise, training, data storage and data management to researchers in Ontario and across Canada.

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The Centre for Advanced Computing at Queen’s University delivers secure high-performance secure computing to Canadian researchers and offers software design and development for data analytics, cognitive computing, and artificial intelligence (AI) applications.

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HPC4Health HPC4Health is a consortium of health providers who are working together to build the next-generation of compute engine for clinical research.

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SHARCNET is a consortium comprising 18 colleges, universities and research institutes operating a network of high-performance computer clusters across south western, central, and northern Ontario.

Scholars Portal provides technology infrastructure and access to collections for Ontario university libraries, and supports research data management and preservation.

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SciNet (consortium at the University of Toronto) is Canada’s largest supercomputing centre, providing Canadian researchers with computational resources and expertise necessary to perform their research on scales not previously possible in Canada.

ORION provides high-speed, fibre-optic network services to support research, education and innovation.