Our mission is simple: to make research computing more accessible, affordable and sustainable for researchers across Canada.

myresearchcloud.ca exists to help remove the infrastructure barriers that can prevent good research from moving forward.

Researchers should not be limited solely by the size of their institution, the availability of local infrastructure, the complexity of commercial cloud platforms or their ability to secure a large computing allocation.

We provide another path.

Through free research allocations and affordable academic CPU, GPU and storage services, we help researchers, students, laboratories and citizen scientists access Canadian-hosted computing appropriate to the scale and stage of their work.

Built on a Nonprofit Foundation

myresearchcloud.ca is operated by Computing for Humanity, a Canadian registered charity.

That matters.

Our purpose is not to maximize infrastructure consumption or cloud revenue. It is to expand access to useful research computing while building a service that can remain financially and operationally sustainable over the long term.

Free allocations support researchers who may otherwise have difficulty obtaining infrastructure.

Paid academic services allow laboratories, research groups and institutions to obtain larger or longer-term resources while helping sustain the broader platform.

Together, these models allow charitable access and operational sustainability to reinforce each other.

Our Guiding Principles

Our mission is built around five principles:

• Access — Research computing should be available to researchers beyond only those with large grants, dedicated infrastructure or established HPC allocations.
• Affordability — Pricing should be predictable and appropriate for academic and research budgets.
• Complementarity — We extend Canada’s existing research-computing ecosystem rather than attempting to replace national, regional or institutional infrastructure.
• Sustainability — We extend the useful life of enterprise technology where appropriate and build service models capable of supporting infrastructure over the long term.
• Canadian Capacity — Researchers should have meaningful access to compute and storage hosted within Canada.

Serving the Research Between the Gaps

Not every research project requires a supercomputer.

Many need a persistent virtual machine, a modest CPU allocation, a GPU development environment, several terabytes of storage, a teaching platform or a server that can remain available for months.

These workloads can fall between personal computing, institutional infrastructure and large-scale Advanced Research Computing.

That is one of the spaces myresearchcloud.ca was created to serve.

We support:

• University and college researchers
• Graduate and undergraduate students
• Research laboratories and groups
• Independent scholars
• Citizen scientists
• Nonprofit and public-interest research
• Teaching and training environments
• Research software and science gateways

Our objective is straightforward: help legitimate research find an appropriate computing environment.

Complementing Canada’s Research Computing Ecosystem

Canada already has substantial Advanced Research Computing and institutional infrastructure.

Those systems remain essential.

myresearchcloud.ca is designed to complement them by providing cloud-style environments, persistent infrastructure, smaller and medium-sized allocations, research storage and additional CPU or GPU capacity where those models are a better fit.

A healthy research ecosystem should provide multiple pathways.

A researcher may begin on a laptop, move to a small cloud environment, expand into a laboratory allocation and eventually require national-scale HPC or AI infrastructure.

Our role is to help make more of those transitions possible.

Strengthening Canadian Research Capacity

Canada is placing renewed emphasis on domestic technological capacity, resilience and sovereignty.

Research infrastructure is part of that equation.

Canadian researchers should have meaningful domestic options for computing and data storage rather than depending entirely on infrastructure located or controlled outside Canada.

myresearchcloud.ca compute and storage are hosted in Canadian datacentres.

For us, sovereignty does not mean isolation.

It means maintaining Canadian capability, Canadian choice and Canadian infrastructure while continuing to collaborate with researchers and institutions around the world.

Sustainability Through Partnership

Research infrastructure requires more than servers.

It requires datacentre space, power, networking, storage, software, administration, maintenance and technical expertise.

Our model therefore combines charitable support, donated infrastructure, volunteer expertise, foundation funding, individual giving, commercial partnerships and paid academic services.

This allows us to pursue something more durable than a short-term equipment project.

We are building research infrastructure intended to remain useful over time.

Our Commitment

We believe research computing should enable ideas, not become the reason they stop.

That means continuing to expand access.

It means keeping Canadian-hosted options available.

It means working with universities, colleges, research organizations, infrastructure providers, donors and industry.

And it means remaining focused on the purpose behind the platform:

Helping researchers get access to the computing resources they need to do meaningful work.