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Hardware

Arbutus cloud (arbutus.cloud.computecanada.ca)

Node count	CPU	Memory (GB)	Local (ephemeral) storage	Interconnect	GPU	Total cores
156	2 x Gold 6248	384	2 x 1.92TB SSD in RAID0	1 x 25GbE	N/A	6240
8	2 x Gold 6248	1024	2 x 1.92TB SSD in RAID1	1 x 25GbE	N/A	320
26	2 x Gold 6248	384	2 x 1.6TB SSD in RAID0	1 x 25GbE	4 x V100 32GB	1040
32	2 x Gold 6130	256	6 x 900GB 10k SAS in RAID10	1 x 10GbE	N/A	1024
4	2 x Gold 6130	768	6 x 900GB 10k SAS in RAID10	2 x 10GbE	N/A	128
8	2 x Gold 6130	256	4 x 1.92TB SSD in RAID5	1 x 10GbE	N/A	256
240	2 x E5-2680 v4	256	4 x 900GB 10k SAS in RAID5	1 x 10GbE	N/A	6720
8	2 x E5-2680 v4	512	4 x 900GB 10k SAS in RAID5	2 x 10GbE	N/A	224
2	2 x E5-2680 v4	128	4 x 900GB 10k SAS in RAID5	1 x 10GbE	2 x Tesla K80	56

Location: University of Victoria
Total physical compute cores: 16,008 (484 nodes)
Total GPUs: 108 (28 nodes)
5.3 PB of Volume and Snapshot Ceph storage.
12 PB of Object/Shared Filesystem Ceph storage.
157,184 GB of RAM.

Cedar cloud (cedar.cloud.computecanada.ca)

Node count	CPU	Memory (GB)	Local (ephemeral) storage	Interconnect	GPU	Total cores
32	2 x E5-2683 v4	256	2 x 480GB SSD in RAID1	1 x 10GbE	N/A	1024

Location: Simon Fraser University
Total compute cores: 960
500 TB of persistent Ceph storage.
7,680 GB of RAM

East cloud (east.cloud.computecanada.ca)

Node count	CPU	Memory (GB)	Local (ephemeral) storage	Interconnect	GPU	Total cores
36	2 x E5-2650 v2	128	2x 1TB SATA 7.2K in RAID0 + SSD bcache	1 x 10GbE	N/A	576

Location: Université de Sherbrooke
Total compute cores: 576
100 TB of persistent Ceph storage.
4,608 GB of RAM

Graham cloud (graham.cloud.computecanada.ca)

Node count	CPU	Memory (GB)	Local (ephemeral) storage	Interconnect	GPU	Total cores
6	2 x E5-2683 v4	256	2x 500GB SSD in RAID0	1 x 10GbE	N/A	192
2	2 x E5-2683 v4	512	2x 500GB SSD in RAID0	1 x 10GbE	N/A	64
8	2 x E5-2637 v4	128	2x 500GB SSD in RAID0	1 x 10GbE	N/A	256
8	2 x Xeon(R) Gold 6130 CPU	256	2x 500GB SSD in RAID0	1 x 10GbE	N/A	256

Location: University of Waterloo
Total compute cores: 768
84 TB of persistent Ceph storage.
5,632 GB of RAM

Software

Compute Canada cloud OpenStack platform versions as of March 11, 2021

• Arbutus: Stein
• Cedar: Train
• Graham: Train

See the OpenStack releases for a list of all OpenStack versions.

Images

Below are the images provided by Compute Canada staff on the Compute Canada Clouds. New images will be added periodically as new releases and updates become available. As releases have an end of life (EOL) after which support and updates are no longer provided, we encourage you to migrate systems and platforms to newer releases in order to continue receiving patches and security updates. The EOL dates listed in the table are the dates at which these images will be removed from the Compute Canada clouds.

For more details about using images see working with images.

Name	Sites	End Of Life
CentOS-8-x64-2019-11	Arbutus, Cedar, East, Graham	March 31, 2021
CentOS-7-x64-2019-07	Arbutus, Cedar, East, Graham	March 31, 2024
CentOS-6-x64-2019-07	Arbutus, Cedar, East, Graham	March 31, 2020
Debian-10.6.2-Buster-x64-2020-11	Arbutus, Cedar, East, Graham	June 30, 2023
Debian-10.2.0-Buster-2019-11	Arbutus, Cedar, East, Graham	March 31, 2022
Debian-9.11.6-Stretch-2019-12	Arbutus, Cedar, East, Graham	March 31, 2020
Fedora-33-1.2-x64-2020-10	Arbutus	TBD Fedora 33 will be maintained until four weeks after the release of Fedora 35
Fedora-32-1.6-x64-2020-04	Arbutus	May 18, 2021
Fedora-31-1.9-x64-2020-01	Arbutus, Cedar, East, Graham	November 24, 2020
Fedora-30-1.2-x86-2019-07	Arbutus, East	May 26, 2020
Ubuntu-20.04-Focal-minimal-x64-2020-12	Arbutus, East, Graham	June 30, 2024
Ubuntu-20.04-Focal-x64-2020-12	Arbutus, Cedar, East, Graham	June 30, 2024
Ubuntu-18.04.3-Bionic-minimal-x64-2020-01	Arbutus	March 31, 2023
Ubuntu-18.04.3-Bionic-x64-2020-01	Arbutus	March 31, 2023
Ubuntu-16.04.6-Xenial-minimal-x64-2020-01	Arbutus, East, Graham	March 31, 2020
Ubuntu-16.04.6-Xenial-x64-2020-01	Arbutus, Cedar, East, Graham	March 31, 2020