CANFAR Science Platform

Canadian Advanced Network for Astronomical Research is a scalable, cloud-native workspace for astronomy research.

Spin up JupyterLab, submit batch jobs, and collaborate in shared project spaces.
The CANFAR Science Platform gives researchers the tools they need with minimal setup.

Discover what the CANFAR Science Platform can do for you, your team, and your research group.

• Interactive Sessions e.g. JupyterLab
• Batch Processing for large-scale analysis
• Shared Storage for collaborative datasets
• Software Containers with astronomy tools
• Collaboration Tools with group permissions
• Help & Support for research workflows
• Python API for access and automation
• CLI for terminal users
• Publications of DataCite DOIs
• Release Notes for the latest updates
• Try out CANFAR Science Platform
• and much more...

If you use CANFAR, add an acknowledgement to your papers, theses, and other research outputs.

The authors acknowledge the use of the Canadian Advanced Network for Astronomy Research (CANFAR) Science Platform operated by the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC) and the Digital Research Alliance of Canada (DRAC), with support from the National Research Council of Canada (NRC), the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), CANARIE, and the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI).

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