Welcome to the Research Computing Facility at the University of Victoria, the source of heavy computing power at the University and provided as well as to other publicly funded agencies in the research community.  The research facilitated includes the areas of physical sciences (astronomy, chemistry, cosmology and particle physics), Earth sciences (forestry, climate simulation and seismology), engineering and social sciences.

The facility consists of research systems providing services to the general research community as well as systems for particular projects and groups.  These systems include:

• the Hermes and Nestor clusters, part of the University of Victoria's WestGrid offering;
• the Mercury cluster, a Xeon processor-based cluster used primarily for research in particle physics and offered for general research use;
• the Llaima cluster, an AMD Opteron-based parallel cluster for astronomical physics;
• the Euler cluster, used for mathematics;
• the Venturiano cluster, a 36-node AMD64 cluster used for chemistry;
• the Haddock cluster, a 22-node cell broadband cluster used for investigating parallelism in electrical engineering;
• the Minerva High Performance Cluster, designed for parallel applications;
• and Storage, which consists of a multi-terabyte disk system and robotic tape library.

The Research Computing Facility is funded in part by:

• The Canadian Fund for Innovation
• The B.C. Knowledge Fund
• IBM Canada

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