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The Compute Canada Cloud resource or "CC-Cloud" is a pool of hardware supporting [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_virtualization virtualization]. This can be thought of as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing#Infrastructure_as_a_service_.28IaaS.29 Infrastructure as a Service]. | The Compute Canada Cloud resource or "CC-Cloud" is a pool of hardware supporting [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_virtualization virtualization]. This can be thought of as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing#Infrastructure_as_a_service_.28IaaS.29 Infrastructure as a Service]. | ||
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Virtual machines can be easily replicated. One can take a "snapshot" of a VM which can then be started again elsewhere. This makes it easy to replicate or scale up a service, and to recover from (for example) a power interruption. | Virtual machines can be easily replicated. One can take a "snapshot" of a VM which can then be started again elsewhere. This makes it easy to replicate or scale up a service, and to recover from (for example) a power interruption. | ||
Is the cloud the right place for your work? If you can fit your work easily into the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer HPC] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batch_processing batch] submission work flow and environment (see [[What is a scheduler?]]) it is likely a better solution, as there are more [https://www.computecanada.ca/research-portal/national-services/compute/ resources available] for HPC. It is also possible to use tools like [[Singularity]] to run custom software stacks inside containers within Compute Canada HPC clusters. | |||
*[[Cloud Quick Start| | |||
*[[ | ==Using the Cloud== | ||
*[[ | * If you are new to the cloud see our [[Cloud Quick Start|cloud quick start]] guide, which walks you through creating your first VM. | ||
*[[OpenStack]] | * If you have already created your first VM the next step may be to: | ||
** [[ | ** learn about using the [[Linux_introduction|Linux command line]] in your VM | ||
** | ** learn about [[security considerations when running a VM]] | ||
*[[ | ** learn more about working with [[OpenStack]] | ||
** [[ | ** [[setup a data or web server]] | ||
** use an [[OpenStack VM Setups|available pre-made cloud configuration]] | |||
* If you already have your VM configured you may wish to learn about | |||
** [[automating VM creation]] | |||
** [[backing up your VM]] | |||
==Cloud systems== | |||
The details of the underlying hardware and Openstack versions are described on the [[cloud resources]] page. The [[system status]] page contains information about the current cloud status and future planned maintenance and upgrade activities. | |||
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