FACILITATE EXCELLENCE IN RESEARCH
The research output from UWaterloo is ranked #1 in Canada and #10 in the world for computer security research, with CPI’s membership playing a major role in this achievement. CPI facilitates this research with infrastructure, grant proposal support, and by cultivating opportunities for interdisciplinarity and collaboration, within the UWaterloo ecosystem and with external entities.
CHIPPIE CLUSTER
CPI directly supports our researchers and their students through the Chippie cluster, a computer hardware infrastructure that provides the massive computational power our faculty and students require for their projects.
- The Chippie cluster is managed by the Computer Science Computing Facility and includes access scheduling and maintenance duties
CPI’s current GPU infrastructure includes:
chippie-base:
6x NVIDIA A100 (40GB) 2x NVIDIA A100 (80GB)
chippie-100:
8x NVIDIA A40 (48GB)
CPU-centric system
(Chippie-800) with 224 CPU cores and 6TB of RAM
With this system, we can evaluate usage of CPU-heavy computation resources and scale GPU/CPU resources appropriately
SEED GRANTS
CPI cofounded Seed Grant calls with Robohub and Waterloo.AI respectively, which led to three funded projects with each, for a total of six new initiatives.
One of these Seed Grants has led to further collaboration on a major ORF-RE proposal with Robohub member Yue Hu and CPI members Diogo Barradas and Urs Hengartner
6 grants totaling almost $175k from joint CPI and Waterloo.AI/RoboHub calls
Support for CPI Members’ Grant Proposals:
Office of the Privacy Commissioner Grant: A Pan-Canadian Data Governance Framework for Health Synthetic Data
$150,000
Principal Investigator: Anindya Sen
DND IDEAS 5G Micronet: Secure and Reliable End-to-End Network Slicing for 5G and Beyond Mobile Networks
$6,000,000
Principal Investigator: Raouf Boutaba
SSHRC Connection Grant: Workshop on Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cybersecurity and Privacy
$43,835
Principal Investigator: Anindya Sen