Cloud Powering Research - Compute Canada

Cloud Powering ResearchMarch 17, 2016

Overview

Compute Canada is a not-for-profit organization funded by CFI and supported by regional partnerships to provide the essential digital infrastructure for industry and researchers in Canada.

Our ~200 staff are world class experts and train thousands of researchers a year in computation and big data analytics - ensuring we produce knowledge experts for competitive industries.

This infrastructure is used to design new jet airplanes, individually customize cancer treatments, model oil reservoirs, map criminal networks, and mine historical texts.

It is globally recognized that investment in digital infrastructure is required to ensure countries remain economic leaders.

Default Allocation

Granted Allocation

PI Account

Sponsored Account

ccdb.computecanada.ca

accounts@computecanada.ca

http://bit.ly/1pNEdwK

info@westgrid.ca

Member University Member University and Personnel Member University, Personnel, and Infrastructure

Victoria Cloud West

Sherbrooke Cloud East

36 compute nodes 2 x Intel E5-2650v2 36 x 128 GB of RAM

~100TB usable @ 3x replication

40 compute nodes 2 x Intel E5-2650v2 32 x 256GB RAM 8 x 512GB RAM

~200TB usable @ 3x replication

Alberta Prototyping Cloud

~150TB of storage @ ?x replication

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Compute Canada Cloud Overview

All our cloud systems use OpenStack

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provides a wide range of configuration options

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Compute Canada Cloud Overview

• 2 instances (Virtual Machines) • 2 public IPs • 15G of RAM • 4 VCPUs • 40G of permanent storage • 2 volumes • 2 snapshots

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http://west.cloud.computecanada.ca10

http://east.cloud.computecanada.ca

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ls

ssh-keygen -t rsa -f cloud1.key

ls

cat cloud1.key.pub

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ssh -i cloud1.key ubuntu@YOUR_VM_IP_ADDRESS

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sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo reboot

OR

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade; sudo reboot

ccdb.computecanada.ca

accounts@computecanada.ca

cloud@computecanada.ca

sparc@computecanada.ca

Cloud Powering ResearchMarch 17, 2016