No human advancement should wait in line for computing time.

Join us in building a world where researchers, students, and citizen scientists can access the computing they need to advance health, science, climate research, and discovery.

About Us

At Computing for Humanity, we believe that no promising research project should stall because compute is too expensive, too difficult to access, or simply unavailable.

We expand access to research computing by providing free and affordable infrastructure through donated HPC systems, community cloud services, and distributed computing support. Our work helps researchers, students, and citizen scientists move important projects forward without the cost barriers that so often slow discovery.

Through our platform, myresearchcloud.ca, we offer secure, Canada-hosted access to virtual machines, GPUs, storage, and research environments. Smaller projects can start for free, while larger workloads remain affordable and accessible.

We do more than provide infrastructure. We help turn limited budgets into real research progress.

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Our Services

myresearchcloud.ca Research Cloud

myresearchcloud.ca is our nonprofit research cloud, designed to give researchers fast, simple access to virtual machines, GPUs, storage, and research environments hosted in Canada. It supports the vast majority of underserved research use cases, with free entry-level access and affordable options for larger projects.

Refurbished Systems for Universities

We recover, reconfigure, and donate high-performance computing systems to universities and research institutions, extending the life of valuable infrastructure and expanding access to advanced compute.

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Support for Grid Projects

We contribute computing capacity to distributed research platforms that accelerate large-scale scientific collaboration in areas such as health, climate, and discovery science.

Computing for Humanity operates across three primary areas: nonprofit research cloud access, infrastructure donation and distributed computing support.

myresearchcloud.ca – for Researchers

We provide secure, Canada-hosted storage, virtual machines, and research computing environments with controlled remote access. Smaller projects can start for free, while larger CPU, GPU, and storage workloads remain far more affordable than major public cloud platforms.

Whether you are running exploratory analysis, supporting a thesis, building a prototype, or scaling a larger research workflow, myresearchcloud.ca makes advanced computing more accessible.

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Our Community

Research InstitutIons

Academic departments, labs, and research groups with limited internal IT capacity or constrained budgets.
Researchers

Researchers advancing important work in health, climate, public interest science, and community-serving fields, including projects led by underrepresented groups in STEM.
Citizen Scientists

Independent researchers and citizen scientists contributing meaningfully to fields such as bioinformatics, astronomy, climate science, and data-driven discovery.
Students

Graduate and undergraduate students who need access to compute for coursework, theses, capstone projects, or early-stage research.

Our Research Projects

Mapping Cancer Markers

Mapping Cancer Markers – supporting biomarker discovery using World Community Grid
Protein design

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

GPU-based simulations via GPUGrid for pharmacology and neuroscience

Testimonials

Benjamin Haibe-Kains, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre

CFH is a crucial partner for the AIRCHECK project. CFH’s scalable computing lets us train and share models efficiently. Through our collaboration, we expect to support 200–300 researchers worldwide over the next two to three years.
Paige Beddoe, Queen's University

The Centre for Advanced Computing (CAC) at Queen's University would like to acknowledge and thank Computing for Humanity for their ongoing contributions of computing resources and collaboration to benefit and accelerate non-commercial cancer, and cancer related, and other scientific research.
James Green, PhD, P.Eng. Professor at Carleton University

Leveraging Computing for Humanity resources, we were able to predict hundreds of thousands of possible inter-species protein combinations, resulting in a peer-reviewed publication and an openly shared dataset of potential drug targets. It is a pleasure to work with a team that is enthusiastic about research.
Chris Sullivan, Oregon State University

Leveraging groups like Computing for Humanity helps reduce costs on grants and increase the impact of the science we can do each day. This donation aligns with our goal of connecting academic institutions with servers that have been retired from the corporate sector, thereby increasing the likelihood of creating a virtuous cycle that leads to more research and discoveries.

How can you help?

Partner with Us

Support researchers by donating funding, hardware, or partnership capacity that helps expand equitable access to advanced computing.

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Join the Research

Apply for access to computing resources through myresearchcloud.ca or connect with us about your project’s infrastructure needs.

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How we’re making a difference

OUR RESEARCH NETWORK

Computing for Humanity works with a growing network of universities and research centres to expand access to advanced computing and share best practices in infrastructure, data management, modeling, visualization, and AI.
SUPPORTING RESEARCHERS

We help researchers focus on discovery by providing infrastructure, donated equipment, and technical support. We also contribute to distributed research initiatives that support national and international scientific progress.
STORING RESEARCH DATA

We provide research data storage at meaningful scale, including large-capacity environments for long-term scientific datasets. Our approach is designed to support researchers who need secure, practical storage without enterprise-level cost barriers.
23,000+ VOLUNTEER HOURS

Our volunteers bring deep commitment and practical expertise to supporting researchers with the computing power and technical help they need to move important work forward.
ON TRACK TO EXCEED ONE BILLION CORE HOURS OF RESEARCH BY NEXT YEAR

Computing for Humanity has already delivered more than 600 million CPU core hours and 6 million GPU hours in support of research. With more than 5,000 new cores being added this year, we are on track to surpass one billion total core hours delivered across direct research, institutional projects, and large-scale public science initiatives.
THOUSANDS OF CPU CORES AND HUNDREDS OF GPUs RUNNING 24/7

We provide researchers with access to thousands of CPU cores and hundreds of GPUs running around the clock. Every donated system, volunteer hour, and partnership helps expand what researchers can do.