National systems

Compute

Overview

Cedar, Graham and Béluga are similar systems with some differences in interconnect and the number of large memory, small memory and GPU nodes.

Name	Description	Capacity	Status
CC-Cloud Resources Arbutus East.cloud	OpenStack IAAS Cloud	7,640 cores	In production (integrated with west.cloud)
Cedar	heterogeneous, general-purpose cluster Serial and small parallel jobs GPU and big memory nodes Small cloud partition	58,416 cores	In production
Graham	heterogeneous, general-purpose cluster Serial and small parallel jobs GPU and big memory nodes Small cloud partition	33,376 cores	In production
Béluga	heterogeneous, general-purpose cluster Serial and small parallel jobs GPU and big memory nodes	Approx 40,000 cores	Beta-testing. Available April 2019
Niagara	homogeneous, large parallel cluster Designed for large parallel jobs > 1000 cores	60,000 cores	In production

All systems have large, high-performance attached storage. See National Data Cyberinfrastructure for an overview; follow the links above for individual system for details.

CCDB descriptions

General descriptions are also available on CCDB:

• Cedar-Compute
• Cedar-GPU
• Graham-Compute
• Graham-GPU
• NDC-SFU
• NDC-Waterloo

Compute Canada Data Base