In March I shared the story of the Atlantic Computational Excellence Network (ACENET) and its critical importance supporting leading edge research.
As the date of the 2014 High Performance Computing Conference in Halifax grows near, the conference program highlights the increasingly pervasive state of computing in our world. Indeed the conference theme “HPC serving society” speaks to the broadest of mandates and a world where access to and proper use of computing technologies is critical to all areas of life.
Given that ACENET and other like HPC environments reside within the post-secondary system, it is clear that the post-secondary system like other sectors is embracing the need for leading edge technologies in order to maintain a competitive advantage. ACENET addresses the growing need for university researchers to work with big data and reflects that growing research design methodology in their work.
