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]

Principal participants

WestGrid has 14 partner institutions across four provinces - British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. The participating institutions include:

• Simon Fraser University
• University of British Columbia
• University of Victoria
• University of Northern British Columbia
• The Banff Centre
• University of Alberta
• University of Calgary
• University of Lethbridge
• Athabasca University
• University of Saskatchewan
• University of Regina
• University of Manitoba
• University of Winnipeg
• Brandon University

WestGrid also works in partnership with each province's Optical Regional Advanced Network. WestGrid's network partners include:^[2]

• BCNET
• Cybera
• SRnet
• MRnet
• CANARIE