Cloud facility created for cancer research.

• Position: CLOUD - Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council partners with Genome Canada, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research - Brief article

The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada recently announced that it is banding together with Genome Canada, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research to build a cloud-computing facility for processing vast amounts of data to help find cures for cancer. The Canadian government will provide $7.3 million ($6.7 million U.S.) to fund the project through the NSERC's Discovery Frontiers program, and the University of Chicago is committing an additional $500,000 (about $460,000 U.S.).

The cloud facility is at the heart of the new project, which will develop powerful new...