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CFI has recently released a Consultation Paper on the proposed Cyber-Infrastructure Initiative which has been designed 鈥渢o provide Canadian institutions and their researchers with the infrastructure required to enable groundbreaking data-intensive and computationally challenging research in areas of strategic importance鈥�. (PDF 196 KB).

The Cyber-infrastructure Initiative is scheduled to be launched in October by CFI. The amount of funding available from CFI for this competition is $50M. This initiative is expected to support multi-institutional domain-specific data projects as well as the upgrade of the Compute Canada national platform.聽

Comments on the Consultation Paper should be sent to Nancy.Hayter@Dal.Ca by June 20. All comments will be compiled and forwarded to CFI by 麻豆社 Research Services.聽

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. 麻豆社 expects to lead one application for this competition and if more than one 麻豆社 group comes forward, an internal competition may be necessary.聽