TECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

The IRMACS Centre promotes collaboration between research groups that make intensive use of information technology to conduct their research. The IRMACS infrastructure is available to all IRMACS researchers and consists of:

• 25,000 sq. ft. of computer laboratory and meeting room space
• 90+ computer workstations (shared among the IRMACS researchers)
• server and storage facilities to support its research community
• an 80 processor computational cluster
• advanced remote collaboration (video conferencing) technologies
• state-of-the-art scientific visualization software and hardware
• advanced networking that links IRMACS directly to the CANARIE network and WestGrid High-Performance Computing (HPC) facilities

This infrastructure is supported by a highly skilled set of technical support staff.