2.2 Cost of resources and services

This page may be out of date for newly availble ARCC resources

This page details the actual cost of HPC at the University of Wyoming.

Compute

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.
*On-site backups by user request and subject to cost above quota.

  • $50 1x fee per Access/Secret Key

  • $45 / TB / year

VAST storage (Beartooth
Teton-Creek & Alcova)

General research storage & Cluster/HPC storage.
On-Site Backups included.

*All /gscratch storage is subject to a 90 day purge

  • $75 / TB / year

  • Long-Term Storage 750$ per TB for 10 yrs

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.

  • $100 / node base cost for reservation + CPU/GPU compute by hours reserved

  • Users will be charged one-time base cost as well as being charged for the entire reservation regardless of actual; usage during the reservation time period.

Node Investment

HPC Investment Services

User granted unlimited access to run jobs on purchased nodes. *See Node Estimates

User Accounts

Account Setup/Initialization

Initial setup and configuration of a single account to utilize ARCC resources.

  • 10$/account created for an external collaborator.
    (**This fee is charged by UW IT, not ARCC and therefore subject to UW IT fee determinations)

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

    • NO backups.

    • If a user would like to increase their home directory, costs above default quota are listed in our price sheet (pricing is for UW researchers, only).

  • Gscratch

    • Each user is provided a gscratch directory, subject to purge policy.

    • NO backups.

    • If a user would like to increase their gscratch directory, costs above default quota are listed in our price sheet (pricing is for UW researchers, only).

  • Project

    • No Backups, but we do keep 20 days worth of snapshots to help recover from recent accidental data loss.

      • Users 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.

      • All other storage increases in the /project space are subject to costs above default quota listed in our price sheet above. (Pricing is for UW researchers, only).

      • Request a capacity increase

Network Resources Costs

  • Investment model only - subject to discussion.

  • Otherwise provided at no cost.

Software Resources Costs

ARCC provides the following at NO COST to the UW researchers, staff and students:

  • Redhat OS license,

  • Intel Compiler,

  • Slurm Job Scheduler,

  • GLobus data transfer,

  • anything additional has a cost that the PI is subject to pay.