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Slurm (Compute Canada fork)

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Compute Canada / Digital Research Alliance of Canada 2012 Ottawa, Ontario GPL-2.0 vVarious

The Digital Research Alliance of Canada (formerly Compute Canada) manages national HPC clusters running customized Slurm workload manager configurations and contributes open-source tooling for scientific computing. Their open-source stack powers university research across the country.

#HPC #scientific computing #research #clusters #universities
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NRC Open Tools

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National Research Council of Canada 2010 Ottawa, Ontario MIT / Apache-2.0 vVarious

The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) publishes numerous open-source tools and datasets for materials science, climate modelling, construction standards, and aerospace research. Their open-data and open-software initiatives are publicly available via the Government of Canada's open resource portal.

#government #research #science #NRC #federal
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GNU Octave

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International open-source community Various, International GPL-3.0

A numerical computing language and environment broadly compatible with MATLAB syntax.

#mathematics #numerical #science #engineering
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Scilab

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International open-source community Various, International GPL-2.0

A numerical computation platform for engineering, modelling, simulation, and data analysis.

#mathematics #numerical #science #engineering
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Maxima

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International open-source community Various, International GPL-2.0

A computer algebra system for symbolic and numerical mathematical calculations.

#mathematics #symbolic #science #algebra
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SWMMCanada

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Zhonghao Zhang 2026 Victoria, British Columbia MIT

Open-source service for generating ready-to-run EPA SWMM urban drainage models across Canada from open data.

#canada #water #stormwater #gis #modelling
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