The 2024 Annual Resource Allocation opens on September 26
The Resource Allocation Competition (RAC) enables faculty members and their research groups to access compute, storage and cloud resources beyond what can be obtained via the Rapid Access Service (RAS).
Important: The resources available via the RAS will change on April 1, 2024; the minimum amount of resources required to apply for RAC has also changed. Please read the RAC Competition Guide carefully for more details.
If you are not sure about which application process is best for your project, please email allocations@tech.alliancecan.ca.
Eligibility
To be eligible to submit an application to any of the Resource Allocation Competitions, Principal Investigators (PI) and Co-PIs must:
- be a faculty member at a Canadian academic institution, and
- have an active Alliance account with an Academic Principal Investigator role (Faculty, Adjunct Faculty or Librarian).
Guiding principles
RAC is guided by the following principles:
- All applications are given fair consideration through both a peer-review and a technical review
- Resources are awarded based on the appropriateness of the computational resources requested to achieve the project's objectives and the likelihood that these resources will be efficiently used, rather than on the evaluation of a complete research program; and
- The challenges arising from the shortage of resources and other constraints within the system are shared among all applicants.
Past competitions
You can also view the results of past Resource Allocation Competitions.