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Service Pricing

HPC Dedicated Resources#

Research groups that buy into the HPC gain priority access to resources on the HPC and obtain access to their own queues for running jobs. We sell HPC 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 On-demand
One standard HPC NCU1 $161.38 / 5yrs $35.50 $3.23 $0.01 / CPU hour

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. ↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩

  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. ↩