Cloud resources

Hardware

West Cloud	East Cloud
32 nodes with 256 GB of RAM 8 nodes with 512 GB of RAM total compute cores: 640 200 TB of Ceph storage	36 nodes with 128 GB of RAM total compute cores: 576 100 TB of Ceph storage

Each node has 16 cores.

Software

Compute Canada's East cloud presently runs under the Icehouse version of the OpenStack platform, while West cloud has recently been updated to Kilo; see the list of OpenStack releases.

Default Allocation

A cloud account comes with the following default maximums:

• 2 instances
• 4 virtual CPUs
• 15360 MB RAM
• 1 external IP address
• 40 GB persistent storage
• 2 volumes
• 2 snapshots

These limits are intended to support development, experimentation, and small, temporary batch workloads. Requests for more resources should be submitted through the national Resource Allocation Competition.