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* '''Mar.27, 2017''': RFP was issued, due April 24, 2017.
* '''Mar.27, 2017''': RFP was issued, due April 24, 2017.
* '''Feb.13, 2017''': the RFP is in preparation (final stages) and is expected to be issued by the end of February.
* '''Feb.13, 2017''': the RFP is in preparation (final stages) and is expected to be issued by the end of February.
* '''Apr.4, 2017''': The RFP was issued. Site visits have taken place, and the vendors are preparing their bids.

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This article is a draft

This is not a complete article: This is a draft, a work in progress that is intended to be published into an article, which may or may not be ready for inclusion in the main wiki. It should not necessarily be considered factual or authoritative.



Niagara will be a large parallel system, located at the University of Toronto (SciNet), and is anticipated to have approximately 66,000 CPU cores. This will be a balanced, tightly coupled high performance computing resource, designed mainly for large parallel workloads. Compute Canada is aiming to deploy this system later in 2017.

  • Mar.27, 2017: RFP was issued, due April 24, 2017.
  • Feb.13, 2017: the RFP is in preparation (final stages) and is expected to be issued by the end of February.
  • Apr.4, 2017: The RFP was issued. Site visits have taken place, and the vendors are preparing their bids.