Canada’s fastest academic supercomputer is now online at SFU after $80m upgrades

Canada’s fastest academic supercomputer is now online at SFU after $80m upgrades

Simon Fraser University’s Burnaby campus is once again home to Canada’s most powerful academic supercomputer, following the installation of a new system, named Fir. The new Fir system replaces the Cedar supercomputer, housed at the Cedar Supercomputing Centre (the Centre) at SFU. Fir is ranked number 78 in the TOP500 list of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, the only Canadian system in the top 100 worldwide. “The new Fir supercomputer re…

Simon Fraser University - Canada's fastest academic supercomputer is now online at SFU after $80M upgrades

Simon Fraser University's Burnaby campus is once again home to Canada's most powerful academic supercomputer, following the installation of a new system, named Fir. The new Fir system repl. . .