AI Sovereign Compute Infrastructure Program
Administers Canada's AI Sovereign Compute Infrastructure Program to build domestic public supercomputing capacity for researchers and innovators.
The AI Sovereign Compute Infrastructure Program (SCIP) is a Canadian federal initiative funded through Budget 2024 and Budget 2025 to build a large-scale sovereign public AI supercomputer for use by Canadian researchers and innovators. Administered by Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada, the program allocates approximately CAD 890 million to the Infrastructure Build Layer over seve…
AI compute infrastructure — design, construction, and operation of large-scale sovereign public supercomputing system.
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