John Simpson's Contact Details

John Simpson's Company Details

WestGrid

Victoria, British Columbia, CA • 100 - 249 Employees
Technology Consulting/Tech Services

WestGrid is one of four regional advanced research computing (ARC) partners that operate and support Compute Canada’s national platform of supercomputing resources, which brings together computer and data facilities, computational expertise and services, and thousands of academic researchers to tackle some of Canada’s biggest research challenges. Compute Canada serves a user community across the country in disciplines ranging from the sciences and engineering to arts and humanities. The partner institutions and resource centres that comprise the national platform are hubs of interdisciplinary computational research. Together, these distributed computing facilities work collaboratively to provide the expertise and resources necessary to give Canada’s researchers and innovators access to world-class technologies. As one of Compute Canada’s largest regional divisions, along with ACENET, Calcul Quebec and Compute Ontario, WestGrid encompasses 15 partner institutions across British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Its user community is supported by a distributed and cohesive team of technical staff and system architects.