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Welcome to the technical documentation wiki of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (the Alliance). This is the primary source for users with questions on equipment and services of the Alliance.

The focus here is on national services and systems. For documentation on services and systems managed by our regional partners, please use the links provided below.

This wiki is a constant work-in-progress and some links might take you to pages which do not yet have content; such pages display like this. Our staff works constantly to improve and expand the available documentation; note however that any of our users is free to add new material and edit existing content.

Systems and services

Systems * 2025 infrastructure renewal * General-purpose clusters, for CPU or GPU jobs: * Fir, Nibi, Narval, Rorqual * Trillium, a cluster designed for large parallel jobs * GPU clusters which are part of the Pan-Canadian AI Compute Environment (PAICE) * Killarney, tamIA, Vulcan * Legacy clusters that are at the end of their life or retired: * Béluga, Cedar, Graham, Niagara

Services * Available software * Cloud computing service * Database servers * Globus file transfer service * Nextcloud cloud storage service * Research Data Management * Research Software * Quantum computing services

The Service status page describes current and planned outages of clusters and services. FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions

How-to guides

Discipline guides

Regional partners and services