Recharge Overview for RCIC Services
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).
Proposed rates below are in the process of being approved by the UCI recharge rate review process. These have not been finalized.
| Item | Rate | Commitment | Notes |
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Storage Related Recharges (proposed) |
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CRSP Replicated Storage |
$60/TB/Year |
Year |
Two-copy storage, available on campus network |
BeeGFS Parallel Storage |
$100/TB/5 Years |
5 Years |
Single copy, high-performance storage. Accessible only from HPC/HPC3 |
Selective Backup Storage |
$100/TB/5 Years |
5 Years |
Second copy of user-selected file systems on HPC/HPC3 |
Computing Related Recharges (proposed) |
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Server installation into HPC/HPC3 |
$1000 |
One-time |
Researcher-owned equipment can be added to HPC/HPC3 for a one-time charge |
Node Purchase on HPC/HPC3 |
Dependent upon configuration |
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 on HPC3 |
$0.0125/Core-Hour |
Minimum: 10000 core-hours |
Prepaid core-hours on HPC3. Valid for 1 year after purchase. |
GPU Hours on HPC3 |
$0.400/GPU-Hour |
Minimum: 250 GPU-hours |
Prepaid GPU-hours on HPC3. Valid for 1 year after purchase. |
Free Queue Hours on HPC/HPC3 |
$0 |
Jobs running on the Free queue may be terminated at anytime |
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