The Alliance, ON, Compute Ontario invest over $95.4M into U of T, UWaterloo computing infrastructure

The Digital Research Alliance of Canada (the Alliance), the Government of Ontario, and Compute Ontario are providing the University of Toronto and University of Waterloo with new funds to upgrade their advanced research computing infrastructure. U of T received approximately $52.4M to upgrade the Niagara supercomputer, operated by SciNet, while UWaterloo received approximately $43M to renew the high-performance computing and cloud storage infrastructure of the Graham supercomputer, operated by SHARCNET. The investments will provide researchers with robust computing capacity and secure storage to support their research.