Introduction to Compute Canada cloud


Tuesday, June 22
9 am–12 pm Pacific Time

Instructor: Venkat Mahadevan (UBC)

Course plan:

  • An introduction to basic Internet and cloud concepts.
  • An overview of the Compute Canada cloud platform.
  • Creating virtual machines and using Secure Shell (SSH) to securely access them.
  • Deploying R Studio on CC cloud.
  • Securing your virtual machines.
  • Maintaining your cloud environment and virtual machines.

Target audience: general

Level: beginner

Prerequisites: basic knowledge of Linux command line

Software: All attendees will need a remote secure shell (SSH) client installed on their computer in order to participate in the course exercises. On Windows we recommend the free Home Edition of MobaXterm. On Mac and Linux computers SSH is usually pre-installed (try typing ssh in a terminal to make sure it is there).

You can download the workshop slides here.


Zoom   9:00am-12:00pm Pacific
Live session in 30-40 min presentation blocks

Creating and Connecting to an instance on Arbutus (MacOS)

Creating and Connecting to an instance on Arbutus (Windows and MobaXterm)

Installing RStudio