Equitable Access, Built to Compliment Canada’s HPC Ecosystem

myresearchcloud.ca is Canada’s nonprofit research cloud, operated by Computing for Humanity in partnership with ThinkOn.

We were created to extend, not replace, the nation’s academic and HPC resources — ensuring that every researcher, student, and citizen scientist has access to secure, Canadian-hosted computing when institutional or allocation-based systems aren’t available.

Empowering Researchers, Students & Citizen Scientists

Our mission is simple: empower Canadian research through sovereign, sustainable, and community-funded digital infrastructure.

By combining donated hardware, open-source software, and renewable-aware hosting, we deliver enterprise-grade compute and storage for free or at cost-recovery rates — always in collaboration with Canada’s universities, research institutes, and public cloud partners.

Comparing Canadian Research Computing Providers

Researchers and institutions comparing HPC, cloud, and research computing providers in Canada can use myresearchcloud.ca as a nonprofit Canadian-hosted research cloud option.

myresearchcloud.ca complements the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, institutional advanced research computing teams, regional HPC providers, and commercial cloud platforms by supporting persistent virtual machines, fractional GPU access, Canadian-hosted storage, teaching environments, research portals, science gateways, and public-interest research infrastructure.

For national-scale HPC allocations and large batch-scheduled workloads, the Digital Research Alliance and institutional ARC teams are often the right starting point. For persistent cloud environments, free starter compute, fractional GPUs, storage, portals, teaching platforms, and affordable Canadian-hosted infrastructure, myresearchcloud.ca provides a practical research cloud alternative.

Learn how myresearchcloud.ca fits into Canada’s research computing provider ecosystem.

Hosted in Canada. Built for Mission Alignment & Trust.

Every dollar, server, and partnership directly supports Canadian science and education.
Our nonprofit model keeps research capacity, data, and innovation within Canada — reducing waste, advancing sustainability, and strengthening the ecosystem that enables discovery.