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.
Warning
Whenever you terminate an instance, its root disk as well as ALL your customizations are deleted. The base image, however, is never deleted.
Note that the image names below that being with three asterisks are the LATEST supported images. There may be other images available.
Table of supported images on the ScienceCloud¶
| Image Name | Default user | OpenStack image id | Additional information |
|---|---|---|---|
| ***CUDA+Singularity on Ubuntu 24.04 (2024-11-21) | ubuntu | 443a631f-70da-491f-971a-d38c268b0d30 | to be only used for GPU flavor - Nvidia drivers and cuda libraries preinstalled |
| ***Debian 11.11 (2024-12-16) | debian | c3a3b8f1-3468-4a3a-a2b4-92cca114dc5b | |
| ***Debian 12.8 (2024-12-16) | debian | 33bc1e97-70d1-4c55-a7bf-d90ca812f8aa | |
| ***Singularity on Ubuntu 24.04 (2024-11-21) | ubuntu | 47c4ad94-285d-4d21-8dfe-16a123925221 | |
| ***Ubuntu 20.04 (2024-11-13) | ubuntu | fa8a5b93-1770-486f-90d8-f37ecc1efe03 | |
| ***Ubuntu 22.04 (2024-11-13) | ubuntu | bb3d6a8c-c340-46d7-a577-cbc84c7fe6c9 | |
| ***Ubuntu 24.04 (2024-11-13) | ubuntu | fa3798c0-94d5-419a-bae1-46bbd55255b8 | |
| ***Windows Server 2022 Standard (2025-05-15) | Administrator | de6c2733-8d31-4632-82a2-a0f59c88eff6 | No SSH access by default |
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.