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This page details the actual cost of HPC at the University of Wyoming.
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ARCC operates its HPC clusters via an investment model: a UW researcher may invest into compute nodes on the ARCC HPC clusters by funding their purchase. This gives them priority access to those specific nodes, meaning that any jobs running on the investment nodes at the time of request by the investor, will be killed in order to give the investor access. ARCC owns those nodes. Investment buys priority access, not ownership, for the investor. The cost of nodes is based on current market conditions and is shown in this regularly updated page: Node Purchase Estimates .
General (non-investment) cluster usage is free for UW faculty, staff and students within an approved UW research project. If a general-user job lands on an investor’s node, it can be pre-empted (killed) when the investor requests access. Checkpointing the jobs for the purpose of continuing computation on a different node is the responsibility of the users.
ARCC Price Sheet (UW Users)
All pricing below is listed for costs to UW Users exceeding their default quota allocations. Default Quotas for ARCC Standard Services may be referenced here.
Service Name | Description | Costs Above Quota: |
Data Storage | ||
Pathfinder S3 Storage | S3 bucket storage, on-premises. |
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VAST storage (Beartooth | General research storage & Cluster/HPC storage. *All /gscratch storage is subject to a 90 day purge |
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HPC Cluster Services | ||
Initial Project Setup and Configuration | Initial project creation and setup, creation of user accounts associated with project, and administrative efforts. | |
Thunderer CPU Hours | 2x AMD 48c 9454, 768GB memory CPU Node | $0.0039453 / core-hour above annual quota |
Thunderer A30 GPU Hours | 2x AMD 48c 9454, 768GB memory, 8x A30 24GB GPU Node | $0.1291350 / GPU-hour above annual quota |
Thunderer L40S GPU Hours | 2x AMD 48c 9454, 768GB memory, 8x L40S 48GB GPU Node | $0.1802285 / GPU-hour above annual quota |
Thunderer H100 GPU hours | 2x AMD 48c 9454, 1.5TB memory, 8x H100-SXM 80GB GPU Node | $0.6210779 / GPU-hour above annual quota |
Hardware Reservation Configuration | Users may choose to purchase exclusive access to HPC node(s) and granted exclusive access to total CPU/GPU hours available on the node(s) over the reservation time period. |
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Node Investment | ||
HPC Investment Services | User granted unlimited access to run jobs on purchased nodes. *See Node Estimates |
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User Accounts | ||
Account Setup/Initialization | Initial setup and configuration of a single account to utilize ARCC resources. |
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Misc Services | ||
ARCC Personnel Consultation | Consultation and collaboration on miscellaneous project work that does not fit into above listed services | $25 / personnel-hour |
Additional Software Installation/Configuration | Additional software installation/configurations and ARCC staff consultation after initial project setup | $25 / personnel-hour |
Miscellaneous Services | Miscellaneous services are charged based on costs associated with hardware, configuration, installation, number of users, data storage quotas, and personnel hours. If we are able meet the requirements of the requested service, the requestor will be provided with a quote from ARCC personnel detailing project charges. *ARCC may charge for personnel hours associated with project planning depending on complexity of the request. | Varies - Provided through project quote |
Beartooth Compute Storage (Teton Creek)
Default quotas may be referenced here.
Home directory
Each user gets 25G at NO COST.NO backups.
If a user would like to increase their home directory, costs above default quota, we charge $100/ TB / year for any storage over 25G are listed in our price sheet (pricing is for UW researchers, only).
Gscratch
Each user gets 5T at NO COST (Subject is provided a gscratch directory, subject to purge policy).
NO backups.
If a user would like to increase their home gscratch directory, costs above default quota , we charge $100/ TB / year for any storage over 5Tare listed in our price sheet (pricing is for UW researchers, only).
Project
Each project gets 1T at NO COST.
No Backups, but we do keep 20 days worth of snapshots to help recover from recent accidental data loss.
High-performance storage with easy access from Windows and Mac and data sharing capabilities via Globus Online.
FREE up to 500 GB.
$100 / TB / year, billed monthly based on usage over 500 GB; upfront payments are an option.
Long Term Storage on Alcova costs $750 per terabyte for 10 years, billed upfront based on the allocation.
Daily backups.
20 days worth of snapshots will help recover from recent accidental data loss.
Slower storage, good for data that are not needed regularly.
One-time fee of $50 per Accesskey/Secretkey.
$45/ TB / year, billed monthly based on usage.
Daily backups (NOT by default, only if requested by user).
- Web accessible - S3 protocol ONLY (not traditional use).
Users can may apply for a one-time, no-cost capacity increase by providing written justification for the amount of extra storage and its benefit to the UW missions of research, education and economic development.
This capacity increase lasts for the life of the storage system (typically 3 years), the increase must be approved by ARCC Leadership, and is subject to a 10TB max limit.
For any All other storage increases in the /project space , we charge $100/ TB / year.
Long term storage
are subject to costs above default quota listed in our price sheet above. (Pricing is for UW researchers, only).
Network Resources Costs
Investment model only - subject to discussion.
Otherwise - provided at no cost.
Software Resources Costs
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Redhat OS license,
Intel Compiler,
Slurm Job Scheduler,
GLobus data transfer,
anything additional has a cost that the PI is subject to pay.
Users
External collaborators have a 1 time fee (See IT web resources for more information).
Personnel Costs
ARCC provides help to run HPC “best effort” at NO COST.
Anything beyond the “basic use” may require a charge and would need to be discussed (i.e. a software engineer dedicated to your project).