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Virtual machines can be easily replicated. One can take a "snapshot" of a VM which can then be started again elsewhere. This makes it easy to replicate or scale up a service, and to recover from (for example) a power interruption. | Virtual machines can be easily replicated. One can take a "snapshot" of a VM which can then be started again elsewhere. This makes it easy to replicate or scale up a service, and to recover from (for example) a power interruption. | ||
If you can fit your work easily into the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer HPC] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batch_processing batch] submission workflow and environment (see [[What is a scheduler?]]) it is preferable to work outside the cloud, as there are more [ | If you can fit your work easily into the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer HPC] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batch_processing batch] submission workflow and environment (see [[What is a scheduler?]]) it is preferable to work outside the cloud, as there are more [[National systems|resources available]] for HPC and software is already configured and installed for many common needs. There are also tools like [[Singularity]] to run custom software stacks inside containers within Compute Canada HPC clusters. | ||
If your need isn't served by | If your need isn't served by Singularity or HPC batch, then Cloud is your solution. | ||
=Getting a Cloud project= | =Getting a Cloud project= |