Supported Images¶
On ScienceCloud, you don't have to install the operating system when you start a new virtual machine. Instead, we provide bootable disks ready to use, so that within one minute you can login to your new instance. These are called images, and are basically files containing bootable virtual disks. We provide some basic images, but you can also create your own and upload it to the cloud.
Note
IMPORTANT: Whenever you terminate an instance, its root disk as well as ALL your customizations are deleted. The base image, however, is never deleted.
Table of supported images¶
| Image Name | Default user (for ssh access) | OpenStack image id | Additional information |
|---|---|---|---|
| ***Debian 12 (2024-05-29) | debian | 835ef240-2197-4a62-b3f8-7e357d9ab99a | Distribution nickname: "bookworm" |
| ***Debian 11 (2024-05-29) | debian | 1c5dfd64-a681-4b48-8908-d6f69d1164fa | Distribution nickname: "bullseye" |
| ***Ubuntu 22.04 (2024-05-29) | ubuntu | ae0bf031-2aba-4369-86eb-f59e950c013e | Distribution nickname: "jammy" |
| ***Ubuntu 20.04 (2024-05-29) | ubuntu | e3b0f435-fd73-42d8-bd99-2dca379ab350 | Distribution nickname: "focal" |
| ***Singularity on Ubuntu 22.04 (2024-05-29) | ubuntu | 1ea74dbf-bc43-4cd2-ab6a-ac5b101f0f4e | |
| ***Singularity on Ubuntu 20.04 (2024-05-29) | ubuntu | 8e81795a-de23-4308-8a5d-4195cb5f8013 | |
| ***CUDA+Singularity on Ubuntu 22.04 (2024-05-29) | ubuntu | dd1a390a-9ab3-40fa-bcc7-bcd58f7cb835 | to be only used for GPU flavor - Nvidia drivers and cuda libraries preinstalled |
| ***CUDA+Singularity on Ubuntu 20.04 (2024-05-29) | ubuntu | 0933c32c-ad52-42a5-927f-3b1146f6c203 | to be only used for GPU flavor - Nvidia drivers and cuda libraries preinstalled |
| Debian 12 (2023-11-06) | debian | 74557738-976b-4fd8-9544-d6d4341cfc53 | Distribution nickname: "bookworm" |
| Debian 11 (2023-11-06) | debian | 322dac87-ff31-4e65-969e-9649cb04e7b0 | Distribution nickname: "bullseye" |
| Ubuntu 22.04 (2023-11-06) | ubuntu | f2bccd0c-4342-4119-92a9-2b8cd018ac1b | Distribution nickname: "jammy" |
| Ubuntu 20.04 (2023-11-06) | ubuntu | ddbdff26-2e6a-4a57-be14-9c227bc343ea | Distribution nickname: "focal" |
| Singularity on Ubuntu 20.04 (2023-11-06) | ubuntu | 29b948ab-aa03-448e-a758-00e6da9eeae0 | |
| CUDA+Singularity on Ubuntu 20.04 (2023-11-06) | ubuntu | 94fbfc16-58b0-4841-9469-ddeaf68454b6 | to be only used for GPU flavor - Nvidia drivers and cuda libraries preinstalled |
| CentOS 9 (2022-11-04) | cloud-user | 3da8d576-75eb-4440-8413-019a69de511f | |
| CentOS 8 (2022-11-04) | centos | 73bde4e3-eb75-49b2-a129-f3197b0c2bbc | |
| Windows Server 2016 Standard - x86_64 (2018-10-17) | c336ec04-6ddd-4259-8a91-619aeeb62ae2 | ||
| Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard - x86_64 (2018-10-17) | fc05f3ee-cbc5-42a5-a90a-b641345b30a5 |
How to switch to new supported images from the ScienceCloud web-portal¶
If you use the ScienceCloud web-portal to launch your instances from the ScienceCloud web interface, simply select the new image instead of the previous one.