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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 cloud East cloud Cedar cloud Graham cloud	OpenStack IAAS	17,272 cores	In production
Béluga	heterogeneous, general-purpose cluster Serial and small parallel jobs GPU and big memory nodes	34,880 cores	In production
Cedar	heterogeneous, general-purpose cluster Serial and small parallel jobs GPU and big memory nodes Small cloud partition	94,528 cores	In production
Graham	heterogeneous, general-purpose cluster Serial and small parallel jobs GPU and big memory nodes Small cloud partition	41,548 cores	In production
Niagara	homogeneous, large parallel cluster Designed for large parallel jobs > 1000 cores	80,960 cores	In production

All systems have large, high-performance attached storage; see the relevant cluster page for more details.

CCDB descriptions

General descriptions are also available on CCDB:

• Béluga-Compute
• Béluga-GPU
• Cedar-Compute
• Cedar-GPU
• Graham-Compute
• Graham-GPU
• NDC-Calcul Québec
• NDC-SFU
• NDC-Waterloo

Compute Canada Data Base