ACENET has 14 Atlantic university and community college members, and provides access to advanced computing infrastructure, technical support, and digital skills development to academic researchers and their students at any post-secondary institution in the region, as well as government departments and industry.
Publicly funded through the federal and provincial governments, it provides these services at no charge to researchers and students.
Through its federally incorporated not-for-profit, ACENET Solutions Inc., it serves government departments and industry in the region on a cost-recovery basis.
ACENET connects users in the region to digital research infrastructure (DRI) resources across the country through its partnership with the national Digital Research Alliance of Canada (the Alliance) and the four other regional consortia - Calcul Quebec, Compute Ontario, DRI Prairies and DRI BC.
The Alliance was created as a result of the federal government’s 2019 investment of $572M in a new Digital Research Infrastructure Strategy for Canada.