Fir (SFU)

Fir is an 80-node, H100-based Lenovo cluster deployed at Simon Fraser University.¹

It debuted on the Top500 list at #78 at ISC25.

It cost CAD$80 million. Of this money, 50% came from the Alliance, 30% came from the province, and the remainder came from “in-kind contributions from partners.”²

Footnotes

1. Canada is a supercomputer laggard and that needs to change | Financial Post ↩

2. SFU awarded $80 million to upgrade supercomputing facility - SFU News - Simon Fraser University ↩