HPCVL Research
HPCVL member institutions, Carleton, U of Ottawa, Queen's, the Royal Military College (RMC), and Ryerson are located in Ottawa, Kingston, and Toronto.  Dedicated to providing researchers at member institutions and researchers at other institutions in Canada with the secure High Performance Computing (HPC) resources they need to conduct innovative research in a broad spectrum of disciplines within the sciences, engineering, medicine, social sciences and the humanities, HPCVL has implemented support programs with the assistance of its partner, Sun Microsystems, and the Government of Ontario.

Excellent examples of the innovative research being conducted using HPCVL resources have been reviewed in the HPCVL newsletter labnotes. Published since 2001, current and back issues of labnotes may be found at: www.hpcvl.org/newsletters.html

Some examples of the research areas undertaken with HPCVL resources include but are not limited to:

Computer Aided Molecular Design (CAMD)/Computational Chemistry
CAMD is a well-established HPC field and is crucial to modern pharmaceutical discovery, medicinal chemistry and biotechnology. HPCVL researchers are using HPC to help design new drug molecules. Computational chemistry has traditionally been a large user of HPC. The development of new computational chemistry methodologies that can be applied in many areas such as drug design is a good example of how HPCVL researchers are using HPC.