Alliance Cloud Connect Pilot

About the pilot

We understand that researchers in Canada require more efficient access to compute, software and data through community and commercial clouds. Through the Alliance Cloud Connect Pilot (ACCP), we aim to build national cloud research capacity and deliver on our mandate to meet the increasing digital research infrastructure (DRI) resource demand from the Canadian research community. Below is a listing of the commercial vendors, open-source developers, universities and researchers who are working together on a cutting-edge portal that will transform access to community and commercial cloud services in Canada. Thank you to everyone who is participating in the pilot!

 

ACCP participants

 

Cloud service providers

Cloud Service Providers (CSPs) are collaborating to deliver cloud services tailored to the needs of Canadian researchers.

Participating CSPs:

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) 
  • Arbutus Research Cloud
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Microsoft Azure

 

Platform developers

Platform developers are collaborating on a unified platform for accessing cloud service providers (CSPs) along with services that can be deployed seamlessly in the cloud.  

Participating platform developers:

  • Aptum
  • Improving Ottawa Inc.
  • Research Space (Rspace)
  • Ronin
  • McGill University
  • Université de Sherbrooke
  • Université Laval
  • University of British Columbia

 

Researchers

Researchers are testing the platform and providing feedback on the web interface, researcher-facing specialized compute services, identity and access management and more.

Participating researchers:

We have researchers participating from the following Canadian universities:

  • Memorial University of Newfoundland
  • Okanagan College
  • Simon Fraser University
  • St Francis Xavier University
  • Thompson Rivers University
  • Université de Montréal
  • Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
  • Université Laval
  • Université TÉLUQ
  • University of Alberta
  • University of British Columbia
  • University of Calgary
  • University of Saskatchewan
  • University of Victoria
  • York University

 

Our calls for cloud providers, platform developers and researchers are now closed. Background information is available below for your reference.