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Service Pricing

HPC Dedicated Resources#

Research groups that buy into the HPC gain priority access to resources on the cluster and obtain access to their own Slurm accounts/queues for running jobs. We sell HPC resources two ways: time-window and on-demand.

Time-window purchases#

Most researchers reserve a specific number of cores on the HPC by reserving resources for a given period of time. We call this time-window pricing. For time-window based purchases, researchers can select how many resources in increments of Normalized Compute Units that consist of:

  • 1 processor core
  • 4 GB of RAM
Resource Five-year contract One-year contract One-month contract
One standard HPC NCU1 $161.38 / 5yrs $35.50 $3.23

On-demand purchases#

For researchers who want to purchase resources on a pay-as-you-go basis, we offer an on-demand option. For on-demand based purchases, researchers can specify resources in increments of CPU hours (number of processes × job time).

Researchers can purchase additional CPU hours any time as needed.

Resource Rate
One CPU hour1 $0.01

GPU Nodes#

GPU resources are sold as individual nodes in the HPC. Research groups have priority access to GPU nodes that they subsidize.

Resource Five-year contract
GPU node1 $11,012.48 / 5yrs

Refer to the ITS Service Catalog for more details.

Storage Resources#

Research groups can purchase dedicated storage on our HPC parallel filesystem or Research Archival Storage system.

Resource Five-year contract One-year contract
1GB HPC parallel storage1 $0.45 $0.09
1TB HPC parallel storage1 $460 $92
1TB Archival storage2 $68.93 $13.79

Contact us to inquire about supplementary cloud backup options. Additional charges may apply.

Virtual Machines for Research#

We offer this service primarily to grant-funded projects that need tight integration with our other services. For all other virtual hosting needs, refer to the Virtual Server Hosting service.

Resource Five-year contract One-month contract
Small VM1 $1,687.30 $28.12
Medium VM1 $3,374.60 $56.24
Large VM1 $6,749.20 $112.49

Small VM#

  • $1,687/5yrs or $28.12/mo
  • 2 virtual processors
  • 1 GB RAM
  • 20 GB operating system volume
  • 50GB data volume
  • Shared 10GB network w/IB connection to HPC

Medium VM#

  • $3,374.60/5yrs or $56.24/mo
  • 4 virtual processors
  • 3 GB RAM
  • 20 GB operating system volume
  • 100GB data volume
  • Shared 10GB network w/IB connection to HPC

Large VM#

  • $6,749.20/5yrs or $112.49/mo
  • 8 virtual processors
  • 12 GB RAM
  • 20 GB operating system volume
  • 150GB data volume
  • Shared 10GB network w/IB connection to HPC

Consulting#

We offer both free and paid consulting. Paid consulting offerings include programming, work on special research projects, or assignment of a staff FTE for dedicated support. We handle these on a case-by-case basis. A more detailed explanation is on our consulting page.

Resource Hourly Rate
Paid consulting1 $55

  1. For purchases funded by federal monies, the direct cost charged by RCC and the indirect cost charged by the Office of Research will be equal to the mentioned rates. â†©â†©â†©â†©â†©â†©â†©â†©â†©

  2. For purchases funded by federal monies, the mentioned rates are directly charged by RCC, however, the Office of Research will charge additional indirect cost to the budget. â†©