From richard.cunningham at acadiau.ca Fri Jul 9 14:16:07 2010 From: richard.cunningham at acadiau.ca (Richard Cunningham) Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 11:16:07 -0300 Subject: [SDH/SEMI Members] a note of significance to Canadian DHers Message-ID: <4C372F27.3060602@acadiau.ca> Dear all, The following was sent to be by our colleague Geoffrey Rockwell, with a request that I forward it to the SDH/SEMI list. This is how it has arrived in your inbox. I hope you will take a few minutes to read this note and to act on it. Cheers, Richard SDH/SEMI Secretary Please vote for the Compute Canada "idea" and encourage your colleagues to do so as well. Please see the process below. Industry Canada has launched a consultation process in order to develop a strategy for the digital economy. The details can be found at: http://de-en.gc.ca/home/ This page includes an address by the Hon. Tony Clement together with the government's consultation paper. The site encourages submissions in response to the questions and issues raised by the consultation paper and a number of submissions are already available on the web site. The site encourages participation and, in particular, encourages you to vote for or against particular ideas located in the "Idea Forum" section. Compute Canada has made a submission and presented an "idea" the title of which is "To Compete You Must Compute" that describes the value and necessity of HPC to the digital economy. It can be found at: The URL to the "idea" is http://de-en.gc.ca/2010/07/08/to-compete-you-must-compute/ The process is: 1. Go to http://de-en.gc.ca/home/ 2. Click the "Log in" link along the left hand side just under "Home" 3. Click register to get an account. The standard email confirmation process then occurs. 4. After you have an account, log in. 5. Click Idea Forum along left hand side of home page. 6. Click "Digital Infrastructure" in main window 7. Search for "To Compete You Must Compute" 8. Read and Vote. Or just vote a thumbs up. 9. Leave comments if you wish. It is highly unlikely that funding would flow to Compute Canada as an immediate result of this submission but there is enormous value in using this as a vehicle to raise awareness of the critical importance of and need for HPC to so many sectors of academia, business/industry and in society and the economy generally. Experience over the last year has shown that there is a worryingly low awareness of the strategic value of HPC by governments and funding agencies. This is an opportunity to redress this invisibility. I very strongly encourage you to vote for the Compute Canada idea. In order to do this you must register but the process is simple and will enable you to vote for or against any of the submissions. Submissions and votes can be viewed without registering. In order to register click on the "log in" item in the left hand menu bar and follow the instructions. If the future of HPC in Canada is important to you - as a student, postdoc, staff or faculty member - PLEASE VOTE as soon as possible. At the time of writing, the highest ranked submission had a mere 97 votes. We should easily be able to get over 1000 votes from across Canada. Voting will take only 5 minutes of your time and yet it is a real opportunity to raise awareness of HPC dramatically with the government and with other visitors to this site. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: