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TO:  Dalhousie Researchers

FROM:  Dalhousie Research Services

Re:  Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) Cyber-infrastructure Initiative: Consultation Paper

CFI has recently released a Consultation Paper on the proposed Cyber-Infrastructure Initiative which has been designed “to provide Canadian institutions and their researchers with the infrastructure required to enable groundbreaking data-intensive and computationally challenging research in areas of strategic importance” (see attached). CFI Cyber-infrastructure Initiative Consultation Paper PDF 195KB. The Cyber-infrastructure Initiative is scheduled to be launched in October by CFI. The amount of funding available from CFI for this competition is $50M.  This initiative is expected to support multi-institutional domain-specific data projects as well as the upgrade of the Compute Canada national platform.    

Comments on the Consultation Paper should be sent to Nancy.Hayter@Dal.Ca by June 20. All comments will be compiled and forwarded to CFI by Dalhousie Research Services.

If anyone is interested in submitting a team application to this competition, please contact Nancy Hayter as soon as possible and by June 20 at the latest. Dalhousie expects to lead one application for this competition and if more than one Dalhousie group comes forward, an internal competition may be necessary.