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Facility · Evidence reviewed 2026-10-06

Cedar Supercomputing Centre / Water Tower data centre

Simon Fraser University · Burnaby, British Columbia

Research record, not a building count. Campus and phase overlap may exist; do not add capacity values. Access dates do not establish fresh commissioning.

Identity and map provenance

City reference only; not the facility. Derived city center, rounded to four decimals. The marker is not a building, entrance, campus or parcel location. GeoNames 5911606 · CC BY 4.0

Location

Reported

Burnaby, British Columbia. City or regional reference only; no facility coordinates are published.

Evidence date
Undated source
Checked
2026-10-05
Scope
Facility
Evidence type
Reported
Status describes
Published location reference

Lifecycle

Operating

SFU and the Digital Research Alliance report Fir fully operational at the Cedar Supercomputing Centre, replacing the Cedar computer. The facility and successive machines are not separate buildings.

Evidence date
2025-09
Checked
2026-10-05
Scope
Facility
Evidence type
Reported
Status describes
Facility or project lifecycle

Power

Historical design

The 2017 engineering profile lists MVA-rated electrical equipment and a 550 kVA UPS for high-availability computing. MVA/kVA are not converted to MW without a power factor.

Evidence date
2017
Checked
2026-10-05
Scope
Facility
Evidence type
Reported
Status describes
Power supply or backup configuration

Power

Operating

SFU describes the centre as clean-energy powered. A dedicated generation source and actual site draw are not disclosed.

Evidence date
Undated source
Checked
2026-10-05
Scope
Facility
Evidence type
Reported
Status describes
Power supply or backup configuration

Cooling

Installed

Fir uses direct-to-chip liquid cooling. A separate contractor profile describes the 2017 chiller/free-cooling works; the historical equipment must not be assumed to describe every part of the replacement system.

Evidence date
Undated source
Checked
2026-10-05
Scope
Facility
Evidence type
Reported
Status describes
Cooling system at stated scope

Hardware

Installed

The Fir disclosure identifies 640 NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB GPUs. This belongs to the named research system at SFU.

Evidence date
2025-09
Checked
2026-10-05
Scope
Facility · Fir
Evidence type
Reported
Status describes
Hardware deployment procurement or support

Ownership

Reported

The reviewed source identifies Simon Fraser University in the operator or development role. This does not establish title to the underlying land.

Evidence date
Undated source
Checked
2026-10-05
Scope
Facility
Evidence type
Reported
Status describes
Ownership operator or developer relationship