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New Systems

Author:CC Migration team

Compute

Overview

GP2 and GP3 are almost identical systems with some minor differences in the actual mix of large memory, small memory and GPU nodes.

Name	Description	Approximate Capacity	Availability
CC-Cloud Resources (GP1)	Cloud	7,640 cores	In production (integrated with west.cloud)
GP2	heterogeneous, general-purpose cluster Serial and small parallel jobs Small cloud partition	25,000 cores	April, 2017
GP3	heterogeneous, general-purpose cluster Serial and small parallel jobs Small cloud partition	25,000 cores	April, 2017
LP	a cluster designed for large parallel jobs	60,000 cores	Late 2017

Note that GP1, GP2 and LP will all have large, high-performance attached storage.

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National Data Cyberinfrastructure (NDC)

Type	Location	Capacity	Availability	Comments
Nearline (Long-term) File Storage	SFU and Waterloo NDC-SFU NDC-Waterloo	15 PB each	Late Autumn 2016	Tape backup Silo replacement Aiming for redundant tape backup across sites
Object Store	All 4 sites NDC-Object	Small to start (A few PB usable)	Late 2017	Fully distributed, redundant object storage Accessible anywhere Allows for redundant, high availability architectures S3 and File interfaces New service aimed at experimental and observational data
Special Purpose	various	~3.5 PB	Specialized migration plans	Special purpose for Atlas, LHC, SNO+, CANFAR dCache and other customized configurations

Note that due to Silo decommissioning Dec.31/2016 it will be necessary to provide interim storage while the NDC is developed. See Migration2016:Silo for details.