National systems

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Author:CC Migration team

Introduction

TBD - detailed docs for the new systems are being written by the Research Support National Team.

Compute

Name	Description	Approximate Capacity	Availability
CC-Cloud Resources (GP1)	cloud	7,640 cores	In production (integrated with west.cloud)
GP2	general-purpose cluster (serial and small parallel jobs)	25,000 cores	February, 2017
GP3	general-purpose cluster (serial and small parallel jobs)	25,000 cores	May, 2017
LP	a cluster designed for large parallel jobs	60,000 cores	Summer, 2017
Available software

National Storage Infrastructure

The National Storage Infrastructure will have 2 components:

Object Storage	A fully distributed object storage system spanning all 4 sites, with geo-redundancy, replication and universal access.
Long-term File Storage	"Nearline" Long-term file storage sites (similar to Silo) at SFU and the University of Waterloo. Each site will have tape backup.

• Patrick Mann (talk) 16:43, 20 October 2016 (UTC) Storage Building Blocks have been delivered and are being installed.
• Patrick Mann (talk) 15:26, 23 September 2016 (UTC) Note that due to Silo decommissioning Dec.31/2016 it will be necessary to provide interim storage while the NSI is developed. See Migration2016:Silo for details.