WestGrid is a government-funded infrastructure program started in 2003, mainly in Western Canada, that provides institutional research faculty and students access to high performance computing and distributed data storage, using a combination of grid, networking, and collaboration tools. WestGrid is one of four partners within the umbrella organization, Compute Canada.[1]

Principal participants

WestGrid has 14 partner institutions across four provinces - British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The participating institutions include:

WestGrid also works in partnership with each province's Optical Regional Advanced Network. WestGrid's network partners include:[2]

  • BCNET
  • Cybera
  • SRnet
  • MRnet
  • CANARIE

References

  1. "Regional Divisions". computecanada.ca. Archived from the original on 2014-04-19.
  2. https://computecanada.ca/en/component/content/article/15-english-categories/general-content-english/126-compute-west-westgrid
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