1. Recharge Overview for RCIC Services
1.1. Guiding principles
RCIC is funded through central campus to provide a baseline of centralized, research computing and data services. When research program needs exceed this baseline, additional capacity can be purchased through recharge. It should be noted, that rates apply only to UCI researchers (faculty, research faculty, research staff).
| Item | Rate | Commitment | Notes |
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Storage Related Recharges |
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CRSP Replicated Storage |
$60/TB/Year1 |
Year |
Two-copy storage, available on campus network. Daily Backups. Available from Campus Network or VPN |
BeeGFS Parallel Storage |
$100/TB/5 Years |
5 Years |
Single copy, high-performance storage. Daily Backups. Accessible only from HPC2/HPC3 |
Selective Backup Storage |
$100/TB/5 Years |
5 Years |
Second copy of user-selected file systems on HPC2/HPC3 |
Computing Related Recharges on HPC3 |
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Server installation |
$1000 |
One-time |
Researcher-owned equipment can be added to HPC3 for a one-time charge |
Node Purchase |
$10K/CPU-only server, $35K/GPU-enabled server2 |
Equipment warranty period + 1 year |
Hardware purchases add capacity for the owner. Equipment can remain in the cluster for warranty period + 1 year. |
CPU Hours |
$0.01/Core-Hour1 |
Minimum: 10000 core-hours block |
Prepaid core-hours on HPC3. Valid for 1 year after purchase. |
GPU Hours |
$0.32/GPU-Hour1 |
Minimum: 250 GPU-hours block |
Prepaid GPU-hours on HPC3. Valid for 1 year after purchase. |
Free Queue Hours |
$0 |
Jobs running on the Free queue may be terminated at anytime |
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1 Proposed rates are in the process of being approved by the UCI recharge rate review process. These have not been finalized.
2 These are rough estimates. Exact pricing depends upon configuration.
2. Quick Links
Please see guides below that provide more information and explain how to get help and how to use HPC3:
