Research Computing Services Directory

The resources offered on these pages represent the offerings across campus and the campus community. These resources may not be supported directly by IST.

External Research Computing Services

The Digital Research Alliance of Canada

About this service

The Digital Research Alliance of Canada serves Canadian researchers, by integrating, championing, and funding the infrastructure and activities required for advanced research computing (ARC), research data management (RDM) and research software (RS). This includes an offering of large computer and GPU clusters.

Who can use this service

Researchers

How to request this service

https://alliancecan.ca/en/about/alliance

IST Research Computing Services

About this service

The services below are offered by the IST department and are available to all researchers at the University of Waterloo.

Computer Science Research Computing Services

About this service

Research groups in the faculty of Computer Science are assigned a specific Point of Contact or, IT Concierge. Please visit the Computer Science Research Points of Contact webpage for more information about your point of contact.

Engineering Research Computing Services

About this service

The following storage options are available to researchers in the faculty of Engineering.

Personal N: storage on Nexus or Chorus login.

Who can use this service

Engineering Researchers

Pricing/cost

Free

Shared Storage (NFS, CIFS, NextCloud)

Who can use this service

Engineering Researchers

Can be shared among researchers including graduate students.

How to request this service

https://ecresearch.uwaterloo.ca/

Pricing/cost

5 TB free, additional storage offered at a subsdized rate.

Faculty Web Home Pages

Who can use this service

Engineering Faculty

Support for this service

Personal N: storage on Nexus or Chorus login.

Pricing/cost

mshurst@uwaterloo.ca

Health Research Computing Services

About this service

Researchers in the faculty of Health can visit the Health Computing Office-Faculty, staff, and researcher webpage for more information.

Math Research Computing Services

About this service

Researchers in the faculty of Math can visit the Services for Faculty webpage for more information.