An $80 million upgrade to Canada’s largest supercomputer is set to help businesses that partner with academics to create products or improve technology.
Component parts for this supercomputer are arriving at Simon Fraser University (SFU), where workers are plugging in cables, installing software and creating an environment where more than six thousand researchers across Canada can remotely conduct their own academic work, or run jobs in conjunction with partner companies.
Burnaby-based Ballard Power Systems Inc. is one of many companies that have benefitted from using the supercomputer.
Alan Young, Ballard’s electrodes and technical collaborations director, told BIV that he has worked closely with Erik Kjeang, an associate professor at SFU
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