Funding, News and Announcements

On September 26, 2023, the Alliance Federation will launch its annual Resource Allocation Competition (RAC), a peer-reviewed process to grant priority access to compute, storage and cloud resources beyond what can be obtained via the Rapid Access Service. 

Important: 

• The minimum amount of resources to apply for RAC have changed. Please read the RAC competition guide carefully for more details.
• The resources available via the Rapid Access Service (RAS) will also change starting April 1, 2024.
• If you are applying for the first time, you are strongly encouraged to schedule a pre-submission consultation before October 31, 2023. Go to the Questions and Additional information in the RAC application guide for contact details.
• Significant changes about the way that GPU resources are requested, allocated and charged will be implemented starting April 1, 2024. If you are planning to request GPU resources, please attend one of the GPU information sessions in October (see details below).
• Please mark noreply@alliancecan.ca as a safe sender in your email client to make sure that important communications from the Alliance do not go into your spam folder.
• Applications are due by November 7

Information sessions

Questions? Please email allocations@tech.alliancecan.ca.