ACCRE is supported by a combination of faculty funds, grant dollars, and institutional support.Â
All services are on a fiscal year commitment and billed monthly through iLab.
Reduced rates for research groups are made possible through financial support (subsidies) provided by VU and VUMC. These subsidies help lower the cost of services so that faculty members and their research teams pay less. The difference in pricing between VU and VUMC arises because each institution contributes a different amount of subsidy.
ACCRE prices are formulated as a direct pass through for hardware, networking, staff time, support costs, licensing, datacenter operations, datacenter power and cooling, security, and so on.
Pricing
| Category | Service | Subsidized Price to VU Researcher | Subsidized VUMC Price | Unsubsidized Price | Additional Information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cluster Storage | /data | $7/TB/mo | $7/TB/mo | $9.31/TB/mo | Backed up, cluster facing storage |
| Scratch Data Storage | /nobackup | $5/TB/mo | $9.50/TB/mo | $114.26/TB/mo | Not backed up |
| Archive/Backup | Backup and Archive Options | $5/TB/mo | $9.50/TB/mo | $10.71/TB/mo | n/a |
| CPU Rent | CPU Rent Fee | $16.50/core/mo | $23/core/mo | $23.04/core/mo 26 | Minimum 2-core for 3-month rental for membership |
| GPU Rent | GPU Rent Fee | $186 per Level 1 Card/mo $372 per Level 2 Card/mo | $287 per Level 1 Card/yr $574 per Level 2 Card/yr | $291.24 per Level 1 Card/yr $582.47 per Level 2 Card/yr | Minimum 1 card for 3-month commitment |
| Support Fees | Support Fee (bulk reservation required) | $107.50/node/mo | $143/node/mo | $149.25/node/mo | Bulk reservation required |
| Software Engineer Hours/ACCREx | Software Engineer For Hire Service | $60/hr | $162/hr | $162.34/hr | Prices vary year to year |
Why Purchase vs. Rent (Service Use fee)?
If you are new to ACCRE, we recommend starting out with the CPU Rent Fee. ACCRE membership requires a minimum 8-core CPU rent per year. You can scale up or scale down the number of cores rented at any given time by opening a helpdesk ticket after you submit your initial fairshare service agreement. For groups with long standing projects, it is worth considering an up-front 5 year 128-core, 192-core, or 256-core capacity reservation to the cluster and enrolling in the Support Fee per reservation (in 128-core capacity increments).
For more information on how to request paid services through the ACCRE core, please visit ACCRE Billing: Getting Started in iLab.
ACCRE uses a fairshare for group priority on the cluster. Fairshare refers ACCRE’s computational unit where 1 fairshare equals 1 CPU core on the cluster. The ACCRE cluster has approximately 12,000 cores. When groups are ready to move to a paid account, they have two options:
- Purchase a bulk reservation, the group will receive a fairshare for the total number of CPU cores on the reservation. Ongoing support fees apply for five years and must be reassessed.
- Rent cores out of the total pool of CPU cores on the cluster. The group will receive a fairshare for the total number of CPU cores rented.
Cluster Support and Use Fees
Please contact us for pricing information on CPU and GPU bulk reservations or purchases. If you would like to rent cores, please visit iLab and Billing for additional information on requesting paid services.
AuriStor Filesystem
For more information about Auristor, please visit our documentation page.
Tape Backups
For more information about Tape Backups, please visit our documentation page.
SciLo
For more information about SciLo, please visit our documentation page.