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You have just received your Compute Canada account. Welcome! Now what do you do? This page is intended to help you find your way through the technical documentation on Compute Canada services and systems. | You have just received your Compute Canada account. Welcome! Now what do you do? This page is intended to help you find your way through the technical documentation on Compute Canada services and systems. | ||
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| If you don't already have a Compute Canada account, see [https://www.computecanada.ca/research-portal/account-management/apply-for-an-account/ Apply for an account]. | |||
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==What do you want to do?== | ==What do you want to do?== | ||
* If you are an experienced HPC user and are ready to log onto a cluster, skip to section | * If you are an experienced HPC user and are ready to log onto a cluster, skip to section [[#What resources are available?|What resources are available?]] | ||
* If you would like some training, you can | * If you would like some training, you can | ||
** read about how to connect to our HPC systems with [[SSH|SSH]]; | ** read about how to connect to our HPC systems with [[SSH|SSH]]; | ||
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** [[Visualization]]. | ** [[Visualization]]. | ||
* If you have hundreds of gigabytes of data to move across the network, read about the [[Globus]] file transfer services. | * If you have hundreds of gigabytes of data to move across the network, read about the [[Globus]] file transfer services. | ||
* If you want to experiment with software that doesn’t run well on our HPC systems, please read about Compute Canada [[CC-Cloud|Cloud resources]]. | * If you want to experiment with software that doesn’t run well on our traditional HPC systems, please read about Compute Canada [[CC-Cloud|Cloud resources]]. | ||
For any other questions, you might try the ''Search'' box in the upper right corner of this page, the main page for [[Compute Canada Documentation|Compute Canada Documentation]], or [[Technical support|contact us]] by email. | For any other questions, you might try the ''Search'' box in the upper right corner of this page, the main page for [[Compute Canada Documentation|Compute Canada Documentation]], or [[Technical support|contact us]] by email. | ||
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Arbutus, an extension of the West cloud, now has all its additional compute nodes and will be equipped with additional storage. | Arbutus, an extension of the West cloud, now has all its additional compute nodes and will be equipped with additional storage. | ||
Cedar (GP2) and Graham (GP3) will be general purpose clusters composed of a variety of nodes including large memory nodes and nodes with accelerators. | |||
Niagara (LP) will be a large parallel cluster with nodes interconnected by a fast network. | Niagara (LP) will be a large parallel cluster with nodes interconnected by a fast network. | ||
===Legacy resources (deployed before 2016)=== | ===Legacy resources (deployed before 2016)=== | ||
[https://www.computecanada.ca/research-portal/national-services/compute/ Computing resources | [https://www.computecanada.ca/research-portal/national-services/compute/ Computing] and [https://www.computecanada.ca/research-portal/national-services/storage/ storage] resources which were installed between 2004 and 2015 and are scheduled to be decommissioned in the next few years are referred to as ''legacy resources''. The legacy resources are administered by regional organizations, one of [http://www.ace-net.ca/ ACENET], [http://cac.queensu.ca/ the Centre for Advanced Computing], [http://www.calculquebec.ca/en/ Calcul Québec], [http://www.scinethpc.ca/ SciNet], [https://www.sharcnet.ca/my/front/ SHARCNET], and [https://www.westgrid.ca/ WestGrid]. To use a legacy resource you must have an account with one of these entities; you can apply for an account through [https://ccdb.computecanada.ca/me/facilities CCDB]. Resources deployed during and after 2016 will not require this step, nor will the two [[CC-Cloud|clouds]]. | ||
Most [https://www.computecanada.ca/research-portal/national-services/compute/ legacy clusters] are classified as either capacity clusters or capability clusters. ''Capacity clusters'' contain nodes connected to each other by a relatively slow Ethernet network, while the ''capability clusters'' have a fast network, usually InfiniBand. Large parallel jobs will run better on capability clusters than capacity clusters, while smaller jobs will run almost anywhere. | Most [https://www.computecanada.ca/research-portal/national-services/compute/ legacy clusters] are classified as either capacity clusters or capability clusters. ''Capacity clusters'' contain nodes connected to each other by a relatively slow Ethernet network, while the ''capability clusters'' have a fast network, usually InfiniBand. Large parallel jobs will run better on capability clusters than capacity clusters, while smaller jobs will run almost anywhere. | ||