National systems
Compute clusters¶
A general-purpose cluster is designed to support a wide variety of types of jobs, and is composed of a mixture of different nodes. We broadly classify the nodes as: * base nodes, containing typically about 4GB of memory per core; * large-memory nodes, containing typically more than 8GB memory per core; * GPU nodes, which contain graphic processing units.
All clusters have large, high-performance storage attached. For details about storage, memory, CPU model and count, GPU model and count, and the number of nodes at each site, please click on the cluster name in the table below.
List of compute clusters¶
| Name and link | Type | Sub-systems | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Béluga | General-purpose | * beluga-compute beluga-gpu beluga-storage |
End of life |
| Cedar | General-purpose | * cedar-compute cedar-gpu cedar-storage |
End of life |
| Fir | General-purpose | * fir-compute fir-gpu fir-storage |
In production |
| Graham | General-purpose | * graham-compute graham-gpu graham-storage |
End of life |
| Narval | General-purpose | * narval-compute narval-gpu narval-storage |
In production |
| Niagara | Large parallel | * niagara-compute niagara-storage hpss-storage |
End of life |
| Nibi | General-purpose | * nibi-compute nibi-storage nibi-storage |
In production |
| Rorqual | General-purpose | * rorqual-compute rorqual-gpu rorqual-storage |
In production |
| Trillium | Large parallel | * trillium-compute trillium-gpu trillium-storage |
In production |
Cloud - Infrastructure as a Service¶
Our cloud systems are offering an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) based on OpenStack.
| Name and link | Sub-systems | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arbutus cloud | * arbutus-compute-cloud arbutus-persistent-cloud arbutus-dcache |
* VCPU, VGPU, RAM Local ephemeral disk Volume and snapshot storage Shared filesystem storage (backed up) Object storage Floating IPs dCache storage |
In production |
| Béluga cloud | * beluga-compute-cloud * beluga-persistent-cloud |
* VCPU, RAM Local ephemeral disk Volume and snapshot storage * Floating IPs |
In production |
| Cedar cloud | * cedar-persistent-cloud * cedar-compute-cloud |
* VCPU, RAM Local ephemeral disk Volume and snapshot storage * Floating IPs |
In production |
| Graham cloud | * graham-persistent-cloud | * VCPU, RAM Local ephemeral disk Volume and snapshot storage * Floating IPs |
In production |
PAICE clusters¶
Pan-Canadian AI Compute Environment (PAICE) clusters are systems dedicated to the current and emerging AI needs of Canada’s research community.
| Name and link | Institute | Status |
|---|---|---|
| TamIA | Mila | In production |
| Killarney | Vector Institute | In production |
| Vulcan | Amii | In production |