Funding, News and Announcements

The Digital Research Alliance of Canada’s (the Alliance) annual Resource Allocation Competitions (RAC) has opened with a submission deadline of November 2, 2022 at 11:59pm EST.

The RAC is a peer-reviewed competition designed for research groups who require more compute, storage or cloud resources than are provided within regular account allocations. It is comprised of two competitions:

1. The Resources for Research Groups (RRG) for those requiring compute and storage; and  
2. The Research Platforms & Portals (RPP) for those requiring cloud resources to create digital platforms, tools and applications customized for a specific community within a discipline, ex. Canadian literature of the 20th century.   

Each year, ACENET supports a number of PIs who apply for these competitions. Over the past 3 years, 75 Atlantic Canadian researchers have received RAC allocations, some with in-kind valuations over $350,000.

There are two upcoming information sessions designed to provide researchers and administrators more details and answer questions:

October 4, 1:00-2:30pm Atlantic / 1:30-3:00pm NL (English)  REGISTER
October 5, 1:00-2:30pm Atlantic / 1:30-3:00pm NL (French)  REGISTER

Researchers who are either struggling to complete research because of limited computational or cloud resources within the Alliance, or who may otherwise benefit from holding a RAC allocation, are welcome to apply. The Alliance can help researchers understand the resources and services available to support their project; help them understand their past resource usage and predict future resource requirements; advise on code scaling, software availability; and, any other elements that may support their application.

Dalhousie Contact

Questions may be addressed to erin.murphy@dal.ca.

External Contact

Researchers at Dalhousie can contact their local research consultant, ross.dickson@ace-net.ca, support@ace-net.ca, or allocations@tech.alliancecan.ca. For researchers in the Humanities and Social Sciences fields, the HSS Support Specialist, meghan.landry@ace-net.ca would be pleased to help. For those requiring cloud projects, please contact chris.geroux@ace-net.ca.