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. |
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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 |
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Type |
Description |
Core Charge Rate ( 1 card x 1 hour) |
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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 FeesThe 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. |
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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.