Supercomputers/Systems/Vulcan (Amii)
Canada · operational · ai training
Vulcan (Amii)
Also known as Vulcan (PAICE)
Operated by Amii at University of Alberta (Vulcan) .
Phase 1 seed dataset, compiled by hand. These rows were built from public operator, laboratory and vendor sources. A mechanical second-reader pass has since fetched every cited source: 1092 of 1153 systems have a readable citation that names them, and 40 are genuinely weakly sourced. Every claim carries its source and a confidence tier. Treat anything below verified as a lead, not a citation.
Measured performance
- Rmax
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- Rpeak
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- Rmax ÷ Rpeak
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- Cores
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- Power
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- Per watt
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Figures are as last publicly reported for the configuration described below, not a live measurement. Where a system was upgraded in place, the post-upgrade configuration is shown and the earlier one appears in the timeline.
What this machine is made of
One row per supplier relationship. “Supplier at build” is the company that shipped the part at the time; where that company has since been acquired, the parent it rolls up to today is shown beside it. That distinction is what makes ticker-level aggregation possible across a thirty-year dataset.
| Role | Part | Supplier at build | Quantity | Confidence | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accelerator | NVIDIA L40S Accelerators CUDA (Ada Lovelace) · 350 W 820 NVIDIA L40S GPUs (205 nodes x 4) | NVIDIA | 820 reported | Reported | alliancecan.caalliancecan.ca |
AI datacenter metrics
Figures beyond an accelerator count, each with who stated it. What can and cannot be compared across AI datacenters.
| Metric | Value | As of | Basis | Note | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accelerators | 820 accelerators | 2026-10 | Operator stated | Alliance page: 205 standard nodes x 4 NVIDIA L40S GPUs (820). | alliancecan.ca |
The read
The Amii and University of Alberta AI cluster in Edmonton, one of the three Pan-Canadian AI Compute Environment (PAICE) systems on the Digital Research Alliance of Canada. The Alliance documents 205 standard nodes of 64 CPU cores and four NVIDIA L40S GPUs each (820 GPUs), a 5 PB NVMe and HDD storage system and 100 Gbps Ethernet with RoCE; access is currently limited to Amii-affiliated principal investigators holding Canada CIFAR AI Chairs. The CPU model, memory, vendor and commissioning date are not stated in the fetched documentation. Unrelated to LLNL's Vulcan or AWE's Vulcan, which is why the title carries the operator name. It has no TOP500 entry that we found.
Timeline
No dated events recorded.
Site & facility
Change history
- 2026-10-02 Added Vulcan (Amii), the University of Alberta PAICE AI cluster with 820 L40S GPUs
Source check
We fetched this system's own citations and recorded whether each page actually mentions it. This is a corroboration signal, not a fact check, and it is published so you can see how well the sourcing holds up rather than take it on trust.
| Cited source | Result | Found on the page |
|---|---|---|
| alliancecan.ca | names system only | - |
| alliancecan.ca | names system, part and count | NVIDIA L40S · counts: 820 |
Checked 2026-10-09 by pnpm verify. Re-run it and the table changes with the web.