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[[Category:About Us]]
== HPC in Canada ==
Dr. Mark Whitmore, one of ACEnetACENET's founders has co-authored a paper with Allan MacIsaac on the history of High Performance Computing in Canada. [http://www.cap.ca/pic/archives/64.2(2008)/Apr08-offprint-Whitmore.pdf High Performance Computing in Canada: The Early Chapters] is available from the "Physics in Canada" website.
The article appeared in the [http://www.cap.ca/pic/archives/64.2(2008)/source.html April-June issue] of the journal, an issue dedicated to HPC and also containing articles by ACEnet ACENET users David Clarke, Ivan Saika-Voivod and Peter H. Poole.
[http://www.physics.umanitoba.ca/~whitmore/whitmore.html Dr. Whitmore] was previously a Professor in Memorial's Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography. He is now the Dean of Science at the University of Manitoba.
== Cluster Availability Dates ==
* [[Placentia]] Jun/06
* [[Brasdor]] Jul/06
* [[Mahone]] Aug/06
* [[Fundy]] May/07
* [[Glooscap]] Oct/08
* [[Courtenay]] Dec/08
== Timeline ==
; May 2006
: First user accounts issued HPCS & ACEnet ACENET launch @ Memorial
: Inaugural meeting of ACEmat at MUN
; January 2007
: Videoconferencing lab opens at MtA Collaboration room completed at SMU
: Number of active ACEnet ACENET user accounts exceeds 170
; May 2007
; October 2007
: Number of active ACEnet ACENET user accounts exceeds 330
; November 2007
; February 2008
: Fundy Commissioned 1st Round of ACEnet ACENET Fellowships issued
; March 2008
: Capacity Upgrades - ACEnet ACENET surpasses 3000 cores
: Fundy upgraded to 608 cores
: Placentia upgraded to 680 cores
; June 2008
: Datacave Opening at Saint Mary’s Univerisity
: Number of active ACEnet ACENET user accounts reaches 549