University of Waterloo launches supercomputer for big data and machine learning research

University of Waterloo launches supercomputer for big data and machine learning research

The University of Waterloo, Compute Canada, and Compute Ontario, announced the launch of a new data centre that will house the Graham system, a powerful new supercomputer. The supercomputer can handle more simultaneous computational jobs than any other academic supercomputer in Canada, and has a storage system of more than 50 petabytes, or 50 million gigabytes.