GCRI · Data and Compute
Mandate and publisher
Data and Compute is published by The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI). It is the GCRI platform for data infrastructure, national computational capacity and advanced computing in service of public knowledge. This page sets out its mandate, who answers for it, the limits of its role and its current state. The platform is established, and nothing on it is an offer of compute, hosting or data services.
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Mandate and publisher in four parts.
Data and computing as infrastructure for public knowledge.
Capacity and dependency
How computing capacity is planned, what it depends on and how it fails.
Interoperable evidence
How public-interest data can be shared, combined and trusted across institutions.
Reproducibility
How results can be rerun, checked and corrected.
GCRI answers for the platform.
GCRI is a research, development and policy institution. GCRI Canada is the lead contracting organisation.
The platform's community is data engineers, high-performance computing specialists, cloud architects and university compute teams. Its planned outputs are data governance engineering briefs, compute readiness maps and reproducible workflows. It exists separately because compute and data engineering is distinct from the Foundry product portal. It stewards high-performance, cloud and edge computing and data engineering, interoperability and stewardship for the Consortium.
What the platform does not do.
- It does not allocate compute time, host data or operate cloud or high-performance computing services for others.
- It does not certify data centres, security practices or data protection arrangements.
- It does not rank or endorse vendors, providers or hardware.
- It does not regulate data protection or digital markets, and contributing gives no influence over findings.
Decisions on data and compute stay with data controllers, research institutions, regulators and governments. See trust, rights and status.
Open for information and enquiries.
Data and Compute is an established platform. Its pages set out its scope and how it works, and its activities, records and services are published here as each one opens. Information and enquiries are open today.
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Contribute
Participation paths for engineers and compute teams.
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Write
Contact. The acknowledgement gives a reference and names the next step.
Questions and answers.
Is Data and Compute a separate organisation?
Who handles data governance policy questions?
Does the platform handle personal data?
Bring a method, a dataset or a question.
Information and enquiries are open today. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.
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Maps, data and figures on this site are shown for context and general information. They are not advice, forecasts or warnings; the limits of the information are set out in the Disclaimers and Data Notices.