COVID19 related requests/fr

En raison de la pandémie, Calcul Canada offre son soutien aux chercheurs qui travaillent sur la COVID-19. Si c'est votre cas, veuillez contacter le soutien technique avec une description de vos besoins en ressources, selon les directives décrites ci-dessous.

Renseignements à fournir

La demande devrait être faite par un chercheur principal.

Votre demande doit contenir :

• une courte description de la recherche et de comment le projet aiderait à résoudre la crise;
• une description du soutien dont vous avez besoin (voir ci-dessous).

Increase of job priority

Specific jobs

• First, submit your jobs.
• Specify the list of job identifiers which require an increased priority.

Allocation à court terme

Please provide us with the following:

• Description of the proposed COVID-19 research: What is the specific research problem you are trying to solve? Why are advanced research computing resources critical for the proposed research project?
• When applicable, provide details of any funding for COVID-19 research available, in particular: funding agency, the amount of funding awarded, and portion of the award dedicated to computational research.
• What are the expected research outcomes of the proposed project?
• Start date.
• End date.
• Resources requested for the period:
  • Number of CPU cores.
  • Number of GPUs.
  • Amount of storage for /project and/or /nearline spaces.
• Preferred system.
• Please provide a justification for the resources requested and the system selected.
• Any software, security or other special requirements.

Augmentation de votre espace de stockage

Indiquez les renseignements suivants :

• espace /scratch ou espace /project;
• capacité requise;
• quota plus élevé du nombre de fichiers.

Domain-specific support

If you require domain-specific support, please contact Technical support with your question. Mention that this is for COVID-19 research and we will try to prioritize as best as we can.

Other available resources

Note that the following resources are also available to Canadian researchers:

• The COVID-19 HPC Consortium allows researchers to apply for resources here.
• Google announced that they are making 20M$ worth of Google Cloud credits available for research on COVID-19. Details here.
• Digital Ocean has offered resource for COVID-19 researchers: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/pages/covid-19