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TO:  Dalhousie Researchers

FROM:  Dalhousie Research Services

Re:  Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) Cyber-infrastructure Initiative: Information and Consultation Session at Dalhousie – June 23

CFI will be holding an information and consultation session on its proposed cyber-infrastructure initiative. The session will be held on June 23 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. Rowe Management Building, Classroom #1011, Dalhousie. Pease RSVP to andree.corbeil@innovation.ca if you plan to attend this session.  

This initiative seeks to provide Canadian institutions and their researchers with the infrastructure required to conduct ground-breaking data-intensive and computationally challenging research in areas of strategic importance. To this end, the initiative offers an opportunity for:

• The Compute Canada community to propose a set of capabilities and services that will meet the needs of Canadian researchers conducting data-intensive and computationally challenging research over the next five years; and
  
  
• Institutions and their researchers to come together to propose cyber-infrastructure projects designed to create tailored and shared integrated datasets, data repositories or research data centres that will enable cutting-edge research on significant scientific, social and economic questions. These data-rich infrastructure resources could include the organization and integration of large and sometimes highly complex datasets in a research field as well as the development of analytical tools to fully exploit these datasets.

For more information on the Cyber-infrastructure Initiative, please refer to the CFI Consultation Paper. A reminder that any comments 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.