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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.

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

Browse Documentation

Alliance Cluster Status

Live status from status.alliancecan.ca

Service Status
Vulcan Operational
Trillium Planned Outage of Compute Nodes
Narval Operational
Cedar Cloud Operational
Graham Cloud Operational
Nibi Operational
Fir Operational
Rorqual 2026-06-01
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 2026-05-17 15:34 UTC. See that page for current incident details.

Upcoming Training & Events

Events from the Alliance training calendar:

Date Event Link
May 19 Research Communications: Photo Editing with Photoshop Register
May 19 Two Paths to Python Dashboards: Shiny vs Dash [webinar] Register
May 19 Data Deposit Bootcamp (In-Person) Register
May 19 Introduction to the Unix Shell Register
May 20 Pourquoi la gestion des données? Register
May 20 RAiD Global Community Meeting - Americas Details
May 20 Introduction to Digital Storytelling with Twine Register
May 21 High-performance R - Part 2 [course] Register
May 25 Data Bites - File Naming Best Practices for Research Data Register
May 26 Digital Scholarship Tools: 3D Design Basics Register

Auto-generated from explora.alliancecan.ca/events — updated 2026-05-17 15:34 UTC.

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

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.

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.

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