Offered by
National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)Researchers can buy compute time on-demand via research compute as a service (RCaaS).
Topics
Access
How to gain access:
Users can get access by completing the online order form: https://forms.illinois.edu/sec/210050
Available to:
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Faculty and Staff
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Grad Students
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Undergrads
Description
Researchers can buy compute time on-demand via research compute as a service (RCaaS).
Cost
The Government Costing approved rate for RCaaS is $0.0217 per core-hour, which works out to $15.84 per core-month. This service is exempt from overhead when charged to grants.
The general rules for billing are:
- Investors will be charged the same rate no matter which nodes execute your jobs, and will only be charged for actual time used (rounded up to the next minute). Minimum job runtime is one hour.
- Jobs are scheduled such that only one job will run on one node at a time. Jobs will be charged for all cores on the node, regardless of whether or not they are used.
- The ICCP holds no liability for jobs lost due to user error and no refunds will be made in those cases. However, should a job fail due reasons outside of the control of the user (e.g. operator error, environmental failures), a refund for time lost can be made.
- Usage will be billed monthly to the University of Illinois CFOP you provide, and charges can be viewed on your Technology Services Statement via the Pinnacle application. Customers agree to keep on file with ICCP a current CFOP with sufficient funds to cover the expected charges to their account. It is not possible to pre-pay for service under this model, therefore you must have funding available each month to pay for your usage of RCaaS resources.