WestGrid

WestGrid is a government-funded infrastructure program started in 2003, mainly in Western Canada, that provides institutional research faculty and students access to high performance computing and distributed data storage, using a combination of grid, networking, and collaboration tools. WestGrid is one of four partners within the umbrella organization, Compute Canada.

Principal participants
WestGrid has 14 partner institutions across four provinces - British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The participating institutions include:


 * Simon Fraser University
 * University of British Columbia
 * University of Victoria
 * University of Northern British Columbia
 * The Banff Centre
 * University of Alberta
 * University of Calgary
 * University of Lethbridge
 * Athabasca University
 * University of Saskatchewan
 * University of Regina
 * University of Manitoba
 * University of Winnipeg
 * Brandon University

WestGrid also works in partnership with each province's Optical Regional Advanced Network. WestGrid's network partners include:
 * BCNET
 * Cybera
 * SRnet
 * MRnet
 * CANARIE