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Vulcan is a high-performance computing cluster operated by the University of Alberta Research Computing Group (RCG) and the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (AMII), as part of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada national HPC infrastructure.

This is not the primary documentation

The official Alliance documentation is at docs.alliancecan.ca. This site mirrors and enriches that content with AI-generated metadata, search, and Q&A for the Vulcan cluster community.

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Quick Links

Resource	Link
Alliance Support	support@tech.alliancecan.ca
U of A RCG Support	rschsppt+vulcan@ualberta.ca
Alliance Docs	docs.alliancecan.ca
Vulcan Portal	portal.vulcan.alliancecan.ca
Vulcan Login / OOD	vulcan.alliancecan.ca
CCDB Account	ccdb.alliancecan.ca

Organization	Links
AMII	amii.ca · GitHub · amiithinks
U of A RCG	Research Computing · GitHub
Alliance	alliancecan.ca · CCDB

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Browse Documentation

• English

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  Alliance documentation in English

  Browse English docs

• Francais

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  Documentation de l'Alliance en francais

  Parcourir les docs

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Alliance Cluster Status

Live status from status.alliancecan.ca

Service	Status
Vulcan	Operational
Trillium	Operational
Narval	Operational
Cedar Cloud	Operational
Graham Cloud	Operational
Nibi	Operational
Fir	Operational
Rorqual	Rorqual est en ligne avec certains services qui ne sont pas encore prêts
Arbutus	Arbutus Power Maintenance
Béluga	Decommissioning: 2026 End of Service Timeline
Juno	Operational
Killarney	Operational
Lunaris	Operational
tamIA	Operational

Auto-generated from status.alliancecan.ca — updated 2026-04-19 01:15 UTC. See that page for current incident details.

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Upcoming Training & Events

Events from the Alliance training calendar:

Date	Event	Link
Apr 20	Data Bites - Introduction to Data Management Plans (DMPs)	Register
Apr 20	Cybersecurity Incident Response - Session 1	Details
Apr 21	Neural network programming: lecture 5	Details
Apr 21	Typst: a new markup typesetting system [webinar]	Register
Apr 21	Emerging Scholars Webinar - Spring 2026	Details
Apr 22	Intégrité 360° : pour une science qui inspire confiance - Aspects éthiques de l’utilisation de l’intelligence artificielle en recherche	Details
Apr 22	Hosting a Project Website on GitHub: Introduction to Minimal Computing and Static Websites	Details
Apr 22	GIS in Tidyverse, an introduction to the R sf package	Details

Auto-generated from explora.alliancecan.ca/events — updated 2026-04-19 01:15 UTC.

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About This Site

This documentation is automatically generated by a pipeline that:

1. Downloads pages from the Alliance MediaWiki API
2. Syncs content to RAGFlow for AI-powered search and keyword extraction
3. Converts MediaWiki markup to MkDocs Material using Google Gemini for accurate formatting
4. Generates prompt completions (Q&A pairs) for enhanced discoverability

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About University of Alberta Research Computing

The Research Computing Group (RCG) supports high-performance computing, data-intensive research, and advanced infrastructure for researchers at the University of Alberta and across Canada through the Digital Research Alliance of Canada.

The Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute (AMII) is one of Canada's three national AI institutes and co-operates the Vulcan cluster for machine learning research workloads.

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Support

Many Bothans died to bring us this information.

This project is provided as-is, but reasonable questions may be answered based on coffee intake and/or mood. ;)

Feel free to open an issue or email khoja1@ualberta.ca / kali2@ualberta.ca for U of A related deployments.

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License

This project is released under the MIT License — see LICENSE for details.

University of Alberta · Research Computing Group · AMII · Digital Research Alliance of Canada