No human advancement should wait in line for computing time.

Join us in building a world where Research and Technology battle in unison against limitations on human life.

About Us

At Computing for Humanity, we believe that no great idea should be stalled because of a lack of computational resources.

We remove barriers to research by providing free and affordable infrastructure through donated clusters, community cloud services and grid computing to empower scientists, students and citizen researchers across North America.

From graduate students to independent innovators, we offer reliable, secure and purpose-built resources with no cost barriers. Through our platform, myresearchcloud.ca, basic access is always free, and donors can directly support advanced computing needs.

We don’t just provide infrastructure — we power discovery.

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Our Services

This is our nonprofit cloud platform, designed for fast, easy access to virtual research environments.

myresearchcloud.ca VPS for Researchers

Refurbished Systems for Universities

We recover, reconfigure, and donate high-performance computing clusters to academic institutions across Canada and the United States.

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Support for Grid Projects

We contribute compute to distributed global platforms to accelerate the pace of global scientific collaboration.

Computing for Humanity operates across three primary focus areas: infrastructure donation, community cloud access and grid computing support.

myresearchcloud.ca – VPS for Researchers

We provide secure storage and VPN-accessible environments. Our tiered access model means that smaller projects can use our resources for free, while more intensive workloads remain significantly more affordable than AWS or GCP.

Our Community

Researchers Institutes

Academic researchers working in departments with limited internal IT or budget support.
Researchers

Research projects serving Indigenous communities or led by women and underrepresented groups in STEM.
Citizen Scientists

Citizen scientists making real contributions to fields like bioinformatics, astronomy or climate science
Students

Graduate and undergraduate students who need compute access for coursework, theses or exploratory research

Our Research Projects

Mapping Cancer Markers

Mapping Cancer Markers – supporting biomarker discovery using World Community Grid
COVID Moonshot

COVID Moonshot – contributing to pandemic research through Folding@Home
Protein design

Protein design and modeling via Rosetta@Home
GPU-based simulations

GPU-based simulations via GPUGrid for pharmacology and neuroscience

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How can you help?

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How we’re making a difference

OUR RESEARCH GRID

Computing for Humanity and its network of 21 universities and 3 research centres aim to collaborate and develop best practices and tools in big data center operations, computational modeling, data management and platforms, structural biology research, simulations, image visualization, and AI modeling.
SUPPORTING OUR RESEARCHERS

We want researchers to focus on breakthroughs. Computing for Humanity helps by providing gear to our partners, user and technical support to propel research with advanced computing. We are also partnered with the World Community Grid, now based in Canada, supporting national and international research projects with the aim of improving human life.
STORING RESEARCHER’S DATA

We do data storage differently. Computing for Humanity offers drives for storage to scientists in the hundreds of terabytes range to accommodate researchers' long-term needs for storing their valuable data. Our servers are named commemorating loved ones taken by illness and diseases. Researchers believe computing is vital to finding advancements for humanity.
23,000+ VOLUNTEER HOURS

We are passionate and focused with our dedicated team of volunteers in support of researchers by providing them with supercomputing power to find advancements that will benefit all of humanity.
600,000,000+ CORE HOURS OF RESEARCH

To date, our supercomputers have computed over 600 million core hours and 6 million GPUs hours of research helping scientists get closer to the advancements for humanity. Through the years, we have saved configured settings for future use and re-run experiments/workflows, beyond a normal-sized grant allocation.
4,623+ CORES 835 GPUs RUNNING 24/7

Together, we provide the current amount of 4,623 cores and 835 GPUs to researchers available 24/7! Join us to empower research and play an active part in scientific discovery.