TECHNICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

The IRMACS Centre promotes collaboration between research groups that make intensive use of information technology to conduct their research. IRMACS provides a one stop shop for research support at SFU. The IRMACS infrastructure is available to all IRMACS researchers and consists of:

• 25,000 sq. ft. of computer laboratory and meeting room space
• 90+ computer workstations (shared among the IRMACS researchers)
• scientific gateway, web portals, servers and secure storage facilities to support its research community
• dedicated IRMACS and Compute Canada HPC computation
• advanced remote collaboration (video conferencing) technologies
• state-of-the-art scientific visualization software and hardware
• advanced networking that links IRMACS directly to the CANARIE network and WestGrid/Compute Canada High-Performance Computing (HPC) facilities

This infrastructure is supported by a highly skilled set of technical support staff.