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Overview

Cedar, Graham and Béluga are similar systems with some differences in interconnect and the number of large memory, small memory and GPU nodes.

Name	Description	Capacity	Status
CC-Cloud Resources Arbutus/west.cloud east.cloud	OpenStack IAAS Cloud	7,640 cores	In production (integrated with west.cloud)
Cedar	heterogeneous, general-purpose cluster Serial and small parallel jobs GPU and big memory nodes Small cloud partition	27,696 cores	In production
Graham	heterogeneous, general-purpose cluster Serial and small parallel jobs GPU and big memory nodes Small cloud partition	33,376 cores	In production
Béluga	heterogeneous, general-purpose cluster Serial and small parallel jobs GPU and big memory nodes	Approx 40,000 cores	RFP closes in May, 2018
Niagara	homogeneous, large parallel cluster Designed for large parallel jobs > 1000 cores	60,000 cores	In production

All systems have large, high-performance attached storage. See National Data Cyberinfrastructure for an overview; follow the links above for individual system for details.

CCDB descriptions

General descriptions are also available on CCDB:

• Cedar-Compute
• Cedar-GPU
• Graham-Compute
• Graham-GPU
• NDC-SFU
• NDC-Waterloo

Compute Canada Data Base