Documentation technique

Bienvenue sur le site de documentation technique de Calcul Canada. Les utilisateurs trouveront ici l'information relative aux équipements et services nationaux de Calcul Canada.

The focus here is on national services and systems. For documentation on services and systems managed by our regional partners, please use the links provided below.

This wiki is a constant work-in-progress and some links might take you to pages which do not yet have content; such pages display like this. Our staff works constantly to improve and expand the available documentation; note however that any Compute Canada user is free to add new material and edit existing content.

Systems and services List of current Compute Canada systems General-purpose clusters Béluga, Cedar, Graham, Narval System status and upcoming outages Known issues Niagara, a cluster designed for large parallel jobs Hélios, a GPU cluster Available software Cloud computing service Database servers Globus file transfer service Nextcloud cloud storage service FAQ, Frequently Asked Questions Using a resource allocation, a guide for Principal Investigators

How-to guides Getting started Getting started with the new national systems (mini-webinar series) Niagara Quick Start Guide Cloud Quick Start Guide SSH - How to connect to our compute clusters Linux introduction Storage and file management Transferring data Scratch purging policy Best practices for data migration Using modules and Standard software environments to access software Running jobs Installing software yourself Programming guide Visualization How to get technical support

Discipline guides AI and Machine Learning Bioinformatics Biomolecular simulation Computational chemistry Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) Geographic information systems (GIS) Humanities and Social Sciences Research Data Management Subatomic physics

Regional partners and services WestGrid SHARCNET SciNet Centre for Advanced Computing Calcul Québec ACENET