Arbutus
| Availability | late spring 2026 |
|---|---|
| OpenStack dashboard | https://arbutus.cloud.alliancecan.ca |
| Globus endpoint | to be determined |
| Object Storage (S3 or Swift) | https://object-arbutus.cloud.computecanada.ca |
Arbutus is an Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud hosted at the University of Victoria.
Storage¶
7 PB of Volume and Snapshot Ceph storage. 26 PB of Object/Shared Filesystem Ceph storage. 3 PB of NVMe Volume and Snapshot Ceph storage.
Node characteristics¶
| nodes | cores | available memory | storage | CPU | GPU |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 338 | 96 | 768GB DDR5 | 1 x NVMe SSD, 7.68TB | 2 x Intel Platinum 8568Y+ 2.3GHz, 300MB cache | |
| 22 | 96 | 1536GB DDR5 | 1 x NVMe SSD, 7.68TB | 2 x Intel Platinum 8568Y+ 2.3GHz, 300MB cache | |
| 11 | 64 | 2048GB DDR5 | 1 x NVMe SSD, 7.68TB | 2 x Intel Platinum 6548Y+ 2.5GHz, 60MB cache | |
| 16 | 48 | 1024GB DDR4 | 1 x NVMe SSD, 3.84TB | 2 x Intel Gold 6342 2.8 GHz, 36MB cache | 4 x NVidia H100 PCIe Gen5 (94GB) |
| 10 | 48 | 128GB DDR5 | 1 x NVMe SSD, 3.84TB | 2 x Intel Gold 6542Y 2.9 GHz, 60MB cache | 1 x NVidia L40s PCIe Gen4 (48GB) |
See Cloud resources for current equipment summary.