The Digital Research Alliance of Canada and the Government of Québec is providing McGill University with a combined $38.7M to support two advanced research computing infrastructure projects. The first project will upgrade the electrical capacity of the McGill/Calcul Québec University data centre at the École de technologie supérieure. The data centre is one of five pan-Canadian high-performance computing cluster sites and has long served as the host of the Béluga and Narval computer clusters. The second project consists of the installation of a new server cluster—called Rorqual—in order to replace Béluga. “By collaborating with McGill and the Government of Québec, and leveraging the expertise of our partners at Calcul Québec, we are better able to meet the growing demands of researchers through state-of-the-art [high performance computing],” commented The Alliance CEO George Ross.
