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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
Arbutus Cloud	IaaS Cloud Compute intensive and persistent workloads vGPU nodes	44,112 virtual cores	In production
Béluga	heterogeneous, general-purpose cluster Serial and small parallel jobs GPU and big memory nodes	34,880 cores	In production
Béluga Cloud	IaaS Cloud Compute intensive and persistent workloads	12,288 virtual cores	In production
Cedar	heterogeneous, general-purpose cluster Serial and small parallel jobs GPU and big memory nodes	94,528 cores	In production
Cedar Cloud	IaaS Cloud Compute intensive and persistent workloads	4,352 virtual cores	In production
Graham	heterogeneous, general-purpose cluster Serial and small parallel jobs GPU and big memory nodes	41,548 cores	In production
Graham Cloud	IaaS Cloud Compute intensive and persistent workloads	11,232 virtual cores	In production
Niagara	homogeneous, large parallel cluster Designed for large parallel jobs > 1000 cores	80,960 cores	In production

All systems have large, high-performance attached storage; see the relevant cluster page for more details.

CCDB descriptions

General descriptions are also available on CCDB:

• Béluga-Compute
• Béluga-GPU
• Cedar-Compute
• Cedar-GPU
• Graham-Compute
• Graham-GPU
• NDC-Calcul Québec
• NDC-SFU
• NDC-Waterloo

Compute Canada Data Base