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 |
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How to request this service |
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.
Storage for UW Videos
MS Stream (UW Tenant)
Youtube
Contact Koorus Bookan for further information
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 |
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Pricing/cost | Free |
Shared Storage (NFS, CIFS, NextCloud)
Who can use this service | Engineering Researchers Can be shared among researchers including graduate students. |
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How to request this service | |
Pricing/cost | 5 TB free, additional storage offered at a subsdized rate. |
Faculty Web Home Pages
Who can use this service | Engineering Faculty |
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Support for this service | Personal N: storage on Nexus or Chorus login. |
Pricing/cost |
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.