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Academic & Institutional CPU Infrastructure
Predictable Canadian research computing for laboratories, departments, colleges, universities, hospitals, research institutes and grant-funded projects.
myresearchcloud.ca provides persistent, non-oversubscribed CPU infrastructure designed for academic and institutional research.
Reserve a single research server, establish a dedicated capacity pool for a laboratory, or provide shared compute infrastructure across an entire research program or institution.
Pricing is designed to be straightforward for research grants, departmental budgets and institutional procurement: fixed monthly rates, Canadian data residency, no data-egress charges, no IOPS pricing tiers and no burst-credit billing.
Simple, Predictable Compute Pricing
CPU infrastructure is available in three resource families. Pricing scales according to the memory and storage allocated per vCPU.
| Compute Family | RAM per vCPU | Month-to-Month | 1-Year Commitment | 3-Year Commitment |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Compute | 4 GB | $23 / vCPU-mo | $20 / vCPU-mo | $18 / vCPU-mo |
| Memory Optimized | 8 GB | $35 / vCPU-mo | $30 / vCPU-mo | $27 / vCPU-mo |
| Extreme Memory | 16 GB | $58 / vCPU-mo | $50 / vCPU-mo | $45 / vCPU-mo |
All prices are in Canadian dollars. Published rates are monthly equivalents and exclude applicable taxes.
Institutional Research Capacity Blocks
Research Capacity Blocks allow a laboratory, department, faculty or institution to reserve a shared pool of CPU resources rather than purchasing each virtual machine separately.
A Research Capacity Block is not one large virtual machine. Reserved capacity can be divided among multiple VMs and research projects, then reallocated as requirements change.
Laboratory Capacity
Persistent compute capacity for a principal investigator, laboratory or research group.
Starting at 128 vCPU.
Research Program Capacity
Shared infrastructure for multi-PI projects, research centres, teaching environments and funded programs.
Typically 256–512 vCPU.
Institutional Capacity
Shared research infrastructure for departments, faculties, colleges, universities, hospitals and research organizations.
Typically 512–1,024+ vCPU.
Standard Compute Capacity
Includes 4 GB RAM per vCPU, 8 GB replicated enterprise SSD per vCPU and 6 GB replicated HDD storage per vCPU.
| Reserved Capacity | Total RAM | 1-Year Rate | 1-Year Monthly | 3-Year Rate | 3-Year Monthly |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 128 vCPU | 512 GB | $19 / vCPU | $2,432 | $17 / vCPU | $2,176 |
| 256 vCPU | 1,024 GB | $18.50 / vCPU | $4,736 | $16.50 / vCPU | $4,224 |
| 512 vCPU | 2,048 GB | $18 / vCPU | $9,216 | $16 / vCPU | $8,192 |
| 1,024 vCPU | 4,096 GB | $17 / vCPU | $17,408 | $15.50 / vCPU | $15,872 |
Memory Optimized Capacity
Includes 8 GB RAM per vCPU, 16 GB replicated enterprise SSD per vCPU and 12 GB replicated HDD storage per vCPU.
| Reserved Capacity | Total RAM | 1-Year Monthly | 3-Year Monthly |
|---|---|---|---|
| 128 vCPU | 1,024 GB | $3,648 | $3,264 |
| 256 vCPU | 2,048 GB | $7,104 | $6,336 |
| 512 vCPU | 4,096 GB | $13,824 | $12,288 |
| 1,024 vCPU | 8,192 GB | $26,112 | $23,808 |
Extreme Memory Capacity
Includes 16 GB RAM per vCPU, 32 GB replicated enterprise SSD per vCPU and 24 GB replicated HDD storage per vCPU.
| Reserved Capacity | Total RAM | 1-Year Monthly | 3-Year Monthly |
|---|---|---|---|
| 128 vCPU | 2,048 GB | $6,080 | $5,440 |
| 256 vCPU | 4,096 GB | $11,840 | $10,560 |
| 512 vCPU | 8,192 GB | $23,040 | $20,480 |
| 1,024 vCPU | 16,384 GB | $43,520 | $39,680 |
Need more than 1,024 vCPU? Larger research computing environments, dedicated clusters and customized CPU, memory, storage and network configurations are available through an institutional capacity plan.
Large Memory Optimized and Extreme Memory pools are subject to infrastructure availability and may require advance capacity planning.
Individual Research Compute Instances
Laboratories and research projects that do not require an institutional capacity pool can reserve individual persistent virtual machines.
Standard Compute — 4 GB RAM per vCPU
Balanced research computing for development, data processing, teaching, containers, standard computational workloads and persistent Linux or Windows research environments.
| vCPU | RAM | Replicated SSD | Replicated HDD | Monthly | 1-Year | 3-Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 16 GB | 32 GB | 24 GB | $92 | $80 | $72 |
| 8 | 32 GB | 64 GB | 48 GB | $184 | $160 | $144 |
| 16 | 64 GB | 128 GB | 96 GB | $368 | $320 | $288 |
| 32 | 128 GB | 256 GB | 192 GB | $736 | $640 | $576 |
| 64 | 256 GB | 512 GB | 384 GB | $1,472 | $1,280 | $1,152 |
Memory Optimized — 8 GB RAM per vCPU
Designed for memory-intensive research workflows including Python, R, MATLAB, genomics, analytics, databases, machine learning and larger in-memory datasets.
| vCPU | RAM | Replicated SSD | Replicated HDD | Monthly | 1-Year | 3-Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 32 GB | 64 GB | 48 GB | $140 | $120 | $108 |
| 8 | 64 GB | 128 GB | 96 GB | $280 | $240 | $216 |
| 16 | 128 GB | 256 GB | 192 GB | $560 | $480 | $432 |
| 32 | 256 GB | 512 GB | 384 GB | $1,120 | $960 | $864 |
| 64 | 512 GB | 1,024 GB | 768 GB | $2,240 | $1,920 | $1,728 |
Extreme Memory — 16 GB RAM per vCPU
High-memory research infrastructure for large in-memory datasets, simulations, computational chemistry, digital twins and specialized scientific applications.
| vCPU | RAM | Replicated SSD | Replicated HDD | Monthly | 1-Year | 3-Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 64 GB | 128 GB | 96 GB | $232 | $200 | $180 |
| 8 | 128 GB | 256 GB | 192 GB | $464 | $400 | $360 |
| 16 | 256 GB | 512 GB | 384 GB | $928 | $800 | $720 |
| 32 | 512 GB | 1,024 GB | 768 GB | $1,856 | $1,600 | $1,440 |
| 64 | 1,024 GB | 2,048 GB | 1,536 GB | $3,712 | $3,200 | $2,880 |
Additional Research Storage
Additional research storage can be attached to individual environments or institutional capacity allocations.
| Storage Tier | Typical Use | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Cold / Tape-Backed | Archives, backups, completed projects and retained research datasets. | $5 / TB-month |
| Warm / Spindle | Active datasets, laboratory files, analysis outputs and economical general-purpose research storage. | $12 / TB-month |
| Hot / NVMe-Backed | High-throughput analysis, AI/ML pipelines, simulations, preprocessing and latency-sensitive workloads. | $17 / TB-month |
Large storage allocations, including 100 TB and petabyte-scale environments, can be quoted separately based on capacity, performance and retention requirements.
Research Infrastructure Support
Platform support is included with all paid infrastructure. Laboratories and institutions that require operating-system, researcher onboarding or ongoing technical assistance can add a Research or Institutional Support plan.
| Service | Platform Support | Research Support | Institutional Support |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Included | $500 / month |
10% of infrastructure spend $1,000/month minimum |
| Infrastructure incidents | Included | Included | Included |
| Provisioning and account assistance | Included | Included | Included |
| Platform and service availability | Included | Included | Included |
| Guest operating-system assistance | — | Included | Included |
| Network and storage configuration assistance | — | Included | Included |
| Researcher onboarding assistance | — | Included | Included |
| Basic performance troubleshooting | — | Included | Included |
| Included technical assistance | — | 3 hours/month | 8 hours/month |
| Named technical contact | — | — | Included |
| Capacity planning | — | Basic | Included |
| Multi-project coordination | — | — | Included |
| Quarterly infrastructure review | — | — | Included |
| Target response | Best effort | 1 business day | 4 business hours for service-impacting issues |
| Additional support hours | $250/hour | $150/hour | $150/hour |
Included technical-assistance hours are monthly allocations and do not accumulate from month to month. Target response times are service objectives and are not contractual service-level guarantees unless specifically included in an agreement.
What Platform Support Includes
Platform Support covers the infrastructure operated by myresearchcloud.ca, including:
- Physical compute infrastructure
- Hypervisor and virtualization platform
- Underlying storage infrastructure
- Platform networking
- VM provisioning failures
- Platform availability incidents
- Account and billing assistance
Platform Support does not include administration of the researcher's guest operating system, research applications, software environments or application code.
Professional Services
Complex engineering and project-based work is available separately from monthly support plans.
| Service | Pricing |
|---|---|
| Architecture, migrations, application deployment, research workflow engineering, HPC and AI consulting, complex data migration and specialized infrastructure work |
$250/hour or Statement of Work |
Larger projects can be delivered using fixed-price or statement-of-work arrangements where appropriate.
Built for Persistent Research Workloads
- Non-oversubscribed CPU resources
- No burst-credit throttling
- Persistent virtual machines
- Replicated enterprise storage
- Canadian data residency
- No data-egress charges
- No IOPS pricing tiers
- Predictable monthly billing
- Individual, laboratory and institutional allocations
- Optional research and institutional support
Designed for Grants and Institutional Procurement
Research computing budgets should be predictable before a project begins.
myresearchcloud.ca can provide budgetary estimates for grant applications, fixed-term capacity commitments for funded projects, and shared infrastructure allocations for departments and institutions.
Capacity can be structured around a project's funding period and can combine CPU compute, GPU resources, storage and technical support under a single research infrastructure proposal.
How Research Capacity Blocks Work
- CPU capacity is reserved for the laboratory or institution for the contracted term.
- Reserved capacity can be distributed among multiple researchers, projects and virtual machines.
- Allocations can be changed as research requirements evolve.
- Institutional blocks receive volume pricing in addition to commitment-term pricing.
- Additional CPU, GPU and storage capacity can be added as required, subject to availability.
- Larger dedicated environments can be designed for departments, faculties, institutions and major funded programs.
Pricing & Service Notes
- All prices are in Canadian dollars.
- Applicable taxes are additional.
- Published prices are monthly unless otherwise stated.
- Commitment pricing requires the corresponding one-year or three-year service commitment.
- Capacity Block pricing represents reserved concurrent CPU capacity.
- Capacity can be distributed among multiple approved workloads within the reserved allocation.
- Additional storage is billed at the published per-TB monthly rate.
- There are no data-egress charges.
- There are no IOPS pricing tiers.
- There are no CPU burst-credit charges.
- Large allocations and specialized configurations remain subject to infrastructure availability and capacity planning.
Plan Your Research Infrastructure
Whether you need one persistent research server, dedicated capacity for a laboratory, or a shared institutional research computing environment, we can help size the infrastructure and establish a predictable budget.
Budgetary estimates are available for research grants, institutional planning and procurement.
Discuss Your Research Infrastructure Requirements