Public supercomputing · CA
Digital Research Alliance of Canada Rapid Access Service
Shared research computing and modest cloud or storage allocations. Access is conditional on account approval, project permissions and resource availability.
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Open at latest check: Canada Rapid Access Service: PI and sponsored-user routes Checked 13 November 2026.
Eligible Canadian research groups seeking shared compute or modest cloud resources. Use CCDB for account approval. PIs request cloud projects through the form in UVic's guide; students and collaborators join through their PI.
UVic provides this operational guide. Academic access is conditional on role approval and available resources; other applicant categories need the Alliance policy. This is not a guaranteed GPU award. Official source and next step
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Who can apply?
Eligible Canadian academic principal investigators and their sponsored users. Students join through a PI; research-institute and non-academic applicants have separate access conditions.
How do I take the next step?
Apply for an Alliance account through CCDB. PIs request cloud projects using the official form linked in UVic's guide; sponsored users need their PI's approval.
Recorded deadline
No future deadline is recorded here. That does not establish that a call is open, closed or continuously available.
Check the official programme before applying. A recorded region is not a decision about your eligibility, and an allocation is not guaranteed.
Evidence and limits
- The Alliance access policy permits eligible academic PIs to apply free of charge and to approve sponsored users. Non-academic access may be charged. Source
- UVic explains active accounts, PI-led RAS requests and approval for joining cloud projects. Source
Checked 13 November 2026 using the Alliance's public policy and a participating university's operational guide. Older numeric default quotas are withdrawn pending current verification; no GPU allocation is guaranteed.
This page reuses the directory's recorded evidence and check date. A new page does not mean the programme has been checked again.
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