News: Discussion Paper Released


31 May 2017

Compute Canada, in all its incarnations, is now ten years old; this milestone represents an opportunity for the research community that requires computation and data to reflect on what it wants a computational research support organization to do, and how best it should work.

We’re pleased today to release a discussion paper to the community to contribute to that conversation. “Compute Canadian: Building a successful and federated computational research enterprise, together”, proposes that any computational research support organization in Canada should serve Canadian research in a researcher-centred, service-oriented, and truly national way; and that it should operate as a true federation of equal partners, interoperable but not identical, collaborative and modern.

The discussion paper then examines other federations, in Canada and across the world, to consider best practices for their governance and operation, and to apply them to the principles proposed.

We hope that this paper will be part of a much larger conversation including voices from across the entire research and scholarship community, and all of those that support them in their computational research efforts.

Jonathan Dursi and Jill Kowalchuk