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Digital Research Alliance of Canada

The Digital Research Alliance of Canada is a national entity representing at the federal level its regional partners' and members' Canadian researchers to enable and support their world-class research involving RDM, RS, and ARC needs. It is comprised of these provincial-level organizations: ACENET, Calcul Québec, Compute Ontario, Prairies DRI Group, and the BC DRI Group. The Digital Research Alliance of Canada was formerly Compute Canada Federation. URL: https://www.alliancecan.ca/

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East Cloud

East Cloud is a cloud managed by Calcul Québec, located at the Université de Sherbrooke, and is a national system. See https://docs.alliancecan.ca/wiki/Cloud for more information.

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Graham Cloud

Graham Cloud is a cloud managed by SHARCNET, located at the University of Waterloo, and is a national system. See https://docs.alliancecan.ca/wiki/Cloud for more information.

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HPC4Health

HPC4Health is a consortium supporting Advanced Research Computing whose members include Ontario hospitals and health research institutions. HPC4Health is a partner of Compute Ontario. URL: http://www.hpcforhealth.ca/

High-Performance Computing

High-performance computing (HPC) involves using supercomputers, which have specialized computing and networking hardware, to be able to achieve high levels of performance relative to conventional computers.

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Prairies DRI Group

Prairies DRI Group is a consortium of institutions in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba serving the advanced research computing needs of researchers at its partners' and members' institutions and is also a regional partner of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. The Prairies DRI Group was formerly part of Westgrid.

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Research Data Management

Research data management is part of DRI that helps enable researchers to find and access data.

Research Software

Research software is part of DRI that helps enable researchers to access and use data.

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SciNet

SciNet is supports Advanced Research Computing research in partnership with Compute Ontario, the University of Toronto, and others. URL: https://www.scinethpc.ca/

Shared Hierarchical Academic Research Computing Network

SHARCNET is a consortium of 20 (as of 2020-04) Ontario institutions providing Advanced Computing Research support in partnership with the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, Compute Ontario, and others. URL: https://www.sharcnet.ca/

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