What is SHARCNET?
SHARCNET stands for Shared Hierarchical Academic Research Computing Network. Established in 2000, SHARCNET is the largest high performance computing consortium in Canada, involving eleven universities and colleges across southern Ontario. SHARCNET also refers to a grid of high performance clusters of thousands of processors on a dedicated, private high speed wide area network with a throughput of 1 Gigabits per second. Powered by the Ontario Research Innovation Optical Network (ORION) and the state-of-the-art operating system environments, the grid of SHARCNET enables researchers to run a single parallel application across multiple clusters deployed at different institutions seamlessly.
