The service charges listed below apply only to researchers from labs whose PIs do not have a primary or secondary faculty appointment in an HMS Basic Science department (external users).

Please reference this HMS policy for more details.

Compute**

Charges will be based on total number of compute hours in a given billing period.

    
Type
Description
Core Charge Rate (1 core x 1 hour) 
RAM Charge Rate (1 GiB x 1 hour) 
Standard Compute  Compute job with less than 256GiB RAM reserved  $0.0105   $0.0013  
High Memory Compute  Compute job with more than 256GiB RAM reserved  $0.0144  $0.0006  

GPU

      
Type
Description
Core Charge Rate ( 1 card x 1 hour)
  
GPU Compute  Single or double precision  $0.3428    

Storage

 Storage usage charge is based on the sum of daily usage divided by the number of days in a quarter. It does NOT depend on the folder size limit.    
Type
Description
Charge Rate (1 TiB*, per year) 
Charge Rate (1 TiB*, per quarter) 
Active Compute  Fast SSD for HPC Compute (O2)  $224.06   $56.02
Active Collaborations  Fast disk for lab computers (research.files)  $169.65   $42.42
Standby Slower disks for less frequently accessed data  $111.64   $27.91

Annual Fees

The annual fee is charged for any non-quad-based HMS groups** that have a group folder (regardless of usage) and/or has any users with active cluster accounts. 
Item 
Description 
Fee
Annual Access Fee Annual Access Fee per PI/Group  $40.00

Billing Rates as of 7/06/2021

These rates will be reviewed and updated annually.

*TiB = 1 Tebibyte is equal to 1.0995 Terabytes

** Researchers from labs whose PIs do not have a primary or secondary faculty appointment in an HMS Blavatnik Institute Basic and Social Science Department will be charged for using HMS High-Performance Computing and storage resources. The compute resources that you request for your HPC jobs will define the usage charges you will incur.