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<strong>Welcome to the technical documentation wiki of the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (the Alliance).</strong>
This is the primary source for users with questions on equipment and services of the Alliance.

The focus here is on national services and systems. For documentation on services and systems managed by our regional partners, please use the links provided below.

This wiki is a constant work-in-progress and some links might take you to pages which do not yet have content; such pages display [[like this]]. Our staff works constantly to improve and expand the available documentation; note however that any of our users is free to add new material and edit existing content. 

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== Systems and services ==
<b>Systems</b>
* 2025 [[infrastructure renewal]]
* '''[[National_systems#Compute_clusters|General-purpose clusters]]''', for CPU or GPU jobs:
** [[Béluga/en|Béluga]], [[Cedar|Cedar]], [[Graham|Graham]], [[Narval/en|Narval]]
* [[Niagara]], a cluster designed for large parallel jobs

<b>Services</b>
* [[Available software]]
* '''[[Cloud]]''' computing service
* [[Database servers]]
* [[Globus]] file transfer service
* [[Nextcloud]] cloud storage service
* '''[https://alliancecan.ca/en/services/research-data-management Research Data Management]'''
* '''[https://alliancecan.ca/en/services/research-software Research Software]'''
* [[Using a resource allocation]], a guide for Principal Investigators - [https://alliancecan.ca/en/services/advanced-research-computing/accessing-resources/resource-allocation-competition/available-resources Available Resources]
* [[Services_d%27informatique_quantique/en|Quantum computing services]]

The [https://status.alliancecan.ca/ Service status page] describes current and planned outages of clusters and services.
* Longer-term problems are at [[Known issues]]
FAQ: [[Frequently Asked Questions]]

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== How-to guides ==
* <b>[[Getting started]]</b>
** [[Niagara_Quickstart | Niagara Quick Start Guide]]
** [[Cloud Quick Start|Cloud Quick Start Guide]]
** [[SSH]] - How to connect to our compute clusters
** [[Linux introduction]]
* [[Storage_and_file_management|Storage and file management]]
** [[Transferring data]] 
** [[Scratch purging policy]]
* [[Best practices for data migration]]
* [[Utiliser_des_modules/en|Using modules]] and [[Standard software environments]] to access software
* <b>[[Running jobs]]</b>
* [[Installing software in your home directory|Installing software yourself]]
* [[Programming guide]]
* [[Self-paced courses]]
* [[Visualization]]
* How to get [[technical support]]
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== Discipline guides ==
* [[AI and Machine Learning]]
* [[Bioinformatics]]
* [[Biomolecular simulation]]
* [[Computational chemistry]]
* [[Computational_fluid_dynamics|Computational fluid dynamics (CFD)]]
* [[GIS|Geographic information systems (GIS)]]
* [[Humanities and Social Sciences]]
* [[Research Data Management|Research Data Management]]
* [[SubatomicPhysics|Subatomic physics]]
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== Regional partners and services ==

* [https://training.westdri.ca/ Western training] 
** [https://www.ualberta.ca/information-services-and-technology/research-computing/bootcamps.html UAlberta training]
* [https://sharcnet.ca SHARCNET]
* [https://docs.scinet.utoronto.ca/index.php/Main_Page SciNet]
* [http://cac.queensu.ca/wiki Centre for Advanced Computing]
* [https://www.calculquebec.ca/ Calcul Québec]
* [http://www.ace-net.ca/wiki/ ACENET]
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