Cloud resources
Parent page: Cloud
Hardware¶
Arbutus cloud¶
Address: arbutus.cloud.alliancecan.ca
| Node count | CPU | Memory (GB) | Local (ephemeral) storage | Interconnect | GPU | Total CPUs | Total vCPUs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 156 | 2 x Gold 6248 | 384 | 2 x 1.92TB SSD in RAID0 | 1 x 25GbE | N/A | 6,240 | 12,480 |
| 8 | 2 x Gold 6248 | 1024 | 2 x 1.92TB SSD in RAID1 | 1 x 25GbE | N/A | 320 | 6,400 |
| 26 | 2 x Gold 6248 | 384 | 2 x 1.6TB SSD in RAID0 | 1 x 25GbE | 4 x V100 32GB | 1,040 | 2,080 |
| 32 | 2 x Gold 6130 | 256 | 6 x 900GB 10k SAS in RAID10 | 1 x 10GbE | N/A | 1,024 | 2,048 |
| 4 | 2 x Gold 6130 | 768 | 6 x 900GB 10k SAS in RAID10 | 2 x 10GbE | N/A | 128 | 2,560 |
| 8 | 2 x Gold 6130 | 256 | 4 x 1.92TB SSD in RAID5 | 1 x 10GbE | N/A | 256 | 512 |
| 240 | 2 x E5-2680 v4 | 256 | 4 x 900GB 10k SAS in RAID5 | 1 x 10GbE | N/A | 6,720 | 13,440 |
| 8 | 2 x E5-2680 v4 | 512 | 4 x 900GB 10k SAS in RAID5 | 2 x 10GbE | N/A | 224 | 4,480 |
| 2 | 2 x E5-2680 v4 | 128 | 4 x 900GB 10k SAS in RAID5 | 1 x 10GbE | 2 x Tesla K80 | 56 | 112 |
| Location: University of Victoria | |||||||
| Total CPUs: 16,008 (484 nodes) | |||||||
| Total vCPUs: 44,112 | |||||||
| Total GPUs: 108 (28 nodes) | |||||||
| Total RAM: 157,184 GB | |||||||
| 5.3 PB of Volume and Snapshot Ceph storage. | |||||||
| 12 PB of Object/Shared Filesystem Ceph storage. |
Cedar cloud¶
Address: cedar.cloud.alliancecan.ca
| Node count | CPU | Memory (GB) | Local (ephemeral) storage | Interconnect | GPU | Total CPUs | Total vCPUs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 2 x E5-2683 v4 | 256 | 2 x 480GB SSD in RAID1 | 1 x 10GbE | N/A | 896 | 1,792 |
| 4 | 2 x E5-2683 v4 | 256 | 2 x 480GB SSD in RAID1 | 1 x 10GbE | N/A | 128 | 256 |
| Location: Simon Fraser University | |||||||
| Total CPUs: 1,024 | |||||||
| Total vCPUs: 2,048 | |||||||
| Total RAM: 7,680 GB | |||||||
| 500 TB of persistent Ceph storage. |
Nibi cloud¶
Address: nibi.cloud.alliancecan.ca
| Node count | CPU | Memory (GB) | Local (ephemeral) storage | Interconnect | GPU | Total CPUs | Total vCPUs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | 2 x AMD EPYC 9474F 48-Core Processor | 1511 | 3.5 TB | 1 x 1GbE, 1 x 25GbE, 1 x 50GbE | N/A | 1728 | 3456 |
| Location: University of Waterloo | |||||||
| Total CPUs: 1728 | |||||||
| Total vCPUs: 3456 | |||||||
| Total RAM: 26.57 TB (27202.94 GB | 27,860,544 MB) | ||||||
| Ceph storage: 7.46 PB |
Béluga cloud¶
Address: beluga.cloud.alliancecan.ca
| Node count | CPU | Memory (GB) | Local (ephemeral) storage | Interconnect | GPU | Total CPUs | Total vCPUs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 96 | 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5218 | 256 | N/A, ephemeral storage in ceph | 1 x 25GbE | N/A | 3,072 | 6,144 |
| 16 | 2 x Intel Xeon Gold 5218 | 768 | N/A, ephemeral storage in ceph | 1 x 25GbE | N/A | 512 | 1,024 |
| Location: École de Technologie Supérieure | |||||||
| Total CPUs: 3,584 | |||||||
| Total vCPUs: 7,168 | |||||||
| Total RAM: 36,864 GiB | |||||||
| 200 TiB of replicated persistent SSD Ceph storage. | |||||||
| 1.7 PiB of erasure coded persistent HDD Ceph storage. |
Software¶
Alliance cloud OpenStack platform versions as of February 23, 2026 * Arbutus: Ussuri * Cedar: Train * Nibi: Flamingo * Béluga: Victoria
See the OpenStack releases for a list of all OpenStack versions.
Images¶
Images are provided by Alliance staff on the Alliance Clouds for common Linux distributions (Alma, Debian, Fedora, Rocky, and Ubuntu). New images for these distributions will be added periodically as new releases and updates become available. As releases have an end of life (EOL) after which support and updates are no longer provided, we encourage you to migrate systems and platforms to newer releases in order to continue receiving patches and security updates.
End-of-life images
Older images for Linux distributions past their EOL will be removed. This does not prevent you from continuing to run a VM with an EOL Linux distribution (though you shouldn't) but does mean that those images will no longer be available when creating new VMs.
For more details about using images see working with images.