Hélios

Retirement of Helios

Helios will be decommissionned at the end of 2022. In preparation of this, interactive access using SSH will be blocked starting on October 26th, 2022. It will be possible to retrieve files via Globus until November 28th, at which point Helios will be decommissionned.

Availability: March 2014 - October2022

Login node: -

Globus endpoint: computecanada#helios-dtn

Data transfer node (rsync, scp, sftp,...): -

Hélios is a supercomputer with general purpose graphics processor nodes (GPGPU). It was installed in Laval University's computing centre in the spring of 2014. The server was purchased with funds from Calcul Québec and from researchers at Laval University and Université de Montréal. Until the commissioning of Cedar and Graham, Helios had been the largest GPU deployment administered by Compute Canada, both in terms of computing power and number of GPUs.

Globus is a file transfer service