Center for Computational Research

  Please view this recording to learn how to get started with lake effect and more.  Lake Effect is a subscription-based Infrastructure as a Se...

Permitted Usage: The UB CCR Lake Effect cloud computing platform is designed for UB's faculty and staff researchers and their students.  Just as wi...

Please view this recording to learn how to get started with lake effect and more.  (Password: CCR-HPC2020) The CCR cloud is not designed for novice use...

  Lake Effect Cloud Accounting The Lake Effect cloud allows the user to start, stop, and terminate system virtual machines. Since starting...

Each instance is a virtual machine (VM) in the cloud.  An instance type defines the number of CPUs, the size of memory, and the size of storage that is giv...

Once you've requested and been granted an account on the Lake Effect cloud, you will be able to login in to the web console.  Your username and passwor...

What is an image? An image is a copy of an operating system that you will launch to run in the cloud.  Currently, CCR supports several Linux operating s...

Key pairs are SSH credentials which are injected into images when they are launched.  Creating a new key pair in Openstack registers the public key and down...

Instances are virtual machines that run inside the Openstack cloud.  Most of what users do in the cloud involves instances.  We have broken up the top...

NOTE:  Before you can launch and login to instances, you must have setup a key pair.  Instructions for creating a key pair and managing openstack credential...