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Lleung: Added category and navbox

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			[[Category:CloudStack]]
			{{Navbox CloudStack}}

Darcy at 16:57, 9 June 2022

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	CloudStack allows you to create virtual machines for a wide range of workloads and use cases, including:		CloudStack allows you to create virtual machines for a wide range of workloads and use cases, including:

	* Running a internal or public facing web site		* Running an internal or public facing web site
	* Running a database		* Running a database
	* Experiment with new software tools		* Experiment with new software tools

Darcy: /* Differences between RCS HPC and CloudStack */

2022-06-02T20:54:45Z

Differences between RCS HPC and CloudStack

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	\|Memory intensive workloads		\|Memory intensive workloads
	\|Yes; up to 2TB memory per node		\|Yes; up to 2TB memory per node
	\|No; up to ~~16GB~~ memory per VM		\|No; up to 32GB memory per VM
	\|-		\|-
	\|High storage requirement workloads		\|High storage requirement workloads

Darcy: /* Differences between RCS HPC and CloudStack */

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	\|Yes		\|Yes
	\|-		\|-
	\|Custom OS ~~cofiguration~~		\|Custom OS configuration
	\|No		\|No
	\|Yes		\|Yes

Darcy: /* Differences between RCS HPC and CloudStack */

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	\|Customized software requirements		\|Customized software requirements
	\|Yes; use singularity containers		\|Yes; use singularity containers
			\|Yes
			\|-
			\|Custom OS cofiguration
			\|No
	\|Yes		\|Yes
	\|-		\|-

Lleung at 20:32, 2 June 2022

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	Once your account is ready, please refer to the [[CloudStack User Guide]] for details on using CloudStack.		Once your account is ready, please refer to the [[CloudStack User Guide]] for details on using CloudStack.

	~~==Note==~~

	~~CloudStack is a research environment and is supported as such.~~

	Researchers have a great degree of freedom in how they use CloudStack and they are solely responsible for maintaining any VMs they deploy. The expectation is that the owners of the VMs will be patching and doing other maintenance work on a regular basis. We will be more than happy to provide guidance on this process. Contact us at [mailto:support@hpc.ucalgary.ca support@hpc.ucalgary.ca] for details.

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Lleung at 20:29, 2 June 2022

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	Researchers have a great degree of freedom in how they use CloudStack and they are solely responsible for maintaining any VMs they deploy. The expectation is that the owners of the VMs will be patching and doing other maintenance work on a regular basis. We will be more than happy to provide guidance on this process. Contact us at [mailto:support@hpc.ucalgary.ca support@hpc.ucalgary.ca] for details.		Researchers have a great degree of freedom in how they use CloudStack and they are solely responsible for maintaining any VMs they deploy. The expectation is that the owners of the VMs will be patching and doing other maintenance work on a regular basis. We will be more than happy to provide guidance on this process. Contact us at [mailto:support@hpc.ucalgary.ca support@hpc.ucalgary.ca] for details.

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Lleung: /* Differences between RCS HPC and CloudStack */

2022-06-02T20:08:48Z

Differences between RCS HPC and CloudStack

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	\|-		\|-
	\|CPU intensive workloads		\|CPU intensive workloads
	\|48 CPUs per node, 100's of nodes		\|Yes; 48 CPUs per node, 100's of nodes
	\|1-8 CPUs per VM		\|No; 1-8 CPUs per VM
	\|-		\|-
	\|Memory intensive workloads		\|Memory intensive workloads
	\|Up to 2TB memory per node		\|Yes; up to 2TB memory per node
	\|Up to 16GB memory per VM		\|No; up to 16GB memory per VM
	\|-		\|-
	\|~~Storage availability~~		\|High storage requirement workloads
	\|~~Shared~~ petabyte ~~scale~~ storage ~~available~~		\|Yes; shared multi-petabyte storage
	\|~~<1000GB~~ per account		\|No; up to 1TB per account
	\|-		\|-
	\|Data classification		\|Data classification
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	\|-		\|-
	\|Customized software requirements		\|Customized software requirements
	\|~~Use~~ singularity containers		\|Yes; use singularity containers
	\|Yes		\|Yes
	\|-		\|-

Lleung at 20:06, 2 June 2022

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	Contact us at [mailto:support@hpc.ucalgary.ca support@hpc.ucalgary.ca] for details.		Contact us at [mailto:support@hpc.ucalgary.ca support@hpc.ucalgary.ca] for details.

	=== Differences between RCS HPC ~~cluster~~ and CloudStack ===		=== Differences between RCS HPC and CloudStack ===
	There are some overlaps between the CloudStack offering and our existing HPC environment.		There are some overlaps between the CloudStack offering and our existing High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster environment.
	{\| class="wikitable"		{\| class="wikitable"
	!		!
			!RCS HPC Cluster
	!CloudStack		!CloudStack
	~~!RCS HPC~~
	\|-		\|-
	\|CPU ~~/ memory~~ intensive workloads		\|CPU intensive workloads
			\|48 CPUs per node, 100's of nodes
	\|1-8 CPUs per VM		\|1-8 CPUs per VM
	\|~~48 CPUs~~ per node~~, 100's of nodes~~		\|-
			\|Memory intensive workloads
			\|Up to 2TB memory per node
			\|Up to 16GB memory per VM
	\|-		\|-
	\|Storage availability		\|Storage availability
			\|Shared petabyte scale storage available
	\|<1000GB per account		\|<1000GB per account
	~~\|Shared petabyte scale storage available~~
	\|-		\|-
	\|~~Support data~~ classification		\|Data classification
			\|Level 1 & 2 (ARC), Level 3 & 4 (MARC)
	\|Level 1 & 2 only		\|Level 1 & 2 only
	~~\|Level 1 & 2 (ARC), Level 3 & 4 (MARC)~~
	\|-		\|-
	\|Customized software requirements		\|Customized software requirements
			\|Use singularity containers
	\|Yes		\|Yes
	~~\|Use singularity containers~~
	\|-		\|-
	\|Persistent software or services		\|Persistent software or services
			\|No; time limited jobs only
	\|Yes		\|Yes
	~~\|No; time limited jobs only~~
	\|-		\|-
	\|Managed environment		\|Managed environment
	~~\|No~~
	\|Yes		\|Yes
			\|No; self managed VMs only
	\|-		\|-
	\|Research support by analysts		\|Research support by analysts
			\|Yes
	\|Limited		\|Limited
	~~\|Yes~~
	\|}		\|}
	Not sure if you need a virtual machine or a compute cluster? Is this the "Cloud"? Contact us at [mailto:support@hpc.ucalgary.ca support@hpc.ucalgary.ca] and we will assist you in using this service to support your research goals.		Not sure if you need a virtual machine or a compute cluster? Is this the "Cloud"? Contact us at [mailto:support@hpc.ucalgary.ca support@hpc.ucalgary.ca] and we will assist you in using this service to support your research goals.

Lleung at 20:00, 2 June 2022

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-Apache CloudStack is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering that allows researchers to quickly deploy virtual machines for research projects. This service is part of Research Computing Services's Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) and is free for all University of Calgary researchers and principal investigators.
+Apache CloudStack is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering that allows researchers to quickly deploy virtual machines for research projects. This service is part of Research Computing Services' Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) and is free for all University of Calgary researchers and principal investigators.
 == Use cases ==
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 * Experiment with new software tools
 * Test out the latest release of a software package
-Not sure if you need a virtual machine or a compute cluster? Is this the "Cloud"? Don't understand what we're talking about? Contact us at [mailto:support@hpc.ucalgary.ca support@hpc.ucalgary.ca] and we will assist you in using this service to support your research goals.
+Contact us at [mailto:support@hpc.ucalgary.ca support@hpc.ucalgary.ca] for details.
 == Getting access to CloudStack ==