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 **

The compute resources that you request for your HPC jobs will define the usage charges you will incur. Charges will be based on the 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 
Charge Rate (1 card x 1 hour) 

 

GPU Compute 

Single or double precision 

$0.3428  

 

 

 

 

 

Storage

The 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.