Nine new IT projects win $10.5 million in funding

At the Summit 09 international cyber infrastructure conference today, CANARIE announced the second-round of winners in CANARIE's flagship IT research funding program. These nine winners, from research facilities across Canada, represent some of the very best and brightest IT research initiatives in the country.

CANARIE has awarded nine projects with an impressive $10.5 million in funding, in addition to providing CANARIE's dedicated, high-speed network for these researchers to facilitate data-sharing and collaboration.

Top funding recipients are:

• University of Calgary ($2.1 million) for their Cyber-SKA Canada project
• McGill University ($1.8 million) for their international brain-imaging network "GBRAIN"
• University of Western Ontario ($1.2 million) for their synchrotron experiments network "ANISE"

To date, CANARIE has invested $25.5 million in ground-breaking research funding through two rounds of its Network-Enabled Platform Program (NEP). CANARIE's NEP program was the first in Canada to fund the development of platforms required to analyze massive amounts of data.

"Researchers need more than just a high-speed network to share and analyze information. They require specialized tools and software to help connect the dots in their research. CANARIE is proud to play a role at both of these levels to advance leading research across this truly innovative country that will improve the wealth, wellness and wellbeing of Canadians" said CANARIE President Guy Bujold.

Please see attached for a full list of CANARIE's nine successful NEP-2 projects. All projects are expected to be completed by the fall of 2011.