WestGrid is a government-funded infrastructure program started in 2003, mainly in Western Canada, that provides institutional research faculty and students access to high performance computing and distributed data storage, using a combination of grid, networking, and collaboration tools.
WestGrid is one of four partners within the umbrella organization, Compute Canada.
[1] WestGrid has 14 partner institutions across four provinces - British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
The participating institutions include: WestGrid also works in partnership with each province's Optical Regional Advanced Network.
WestGrid's network partners include:[2]