ARCC operates its HPC clusters via an investment model. A UW researcher may invest into compute nodes on the ARCC HPC clusters by funding
their purchase. This gives them priority access to those specific nodes, meaning that
any jobs running on the investment nodes at the time of request by the investor, will
be killed in order to give the investor access.
ARCC owns those nodes however investment purchases the right to priority access, not
ownership, for the investor.
Hardware investments purchased apply to investors quota (and quota of project members
associated with investment) on top of default quotas for all users.
The cost of nodes is based on current market conditions and is shown in this regularly
updated page: Node Purchase Estimates.
General cluster usage is free for UW faculty, staff and students within an approved
UW research project up to default quotas specified.
If a general-user job lands on an investor’s node, it can be pre-empted (killed) when
the investor requests access.
Checkpointing the jobs for the purpose of continuing computation on a different node
is the responsibility of the users.
Non-Investors may use the non-investor queue to prevent their job getting preempted.
**Please be aware, this section is currently under development, subject to review, and only available to UW Researchers
| Service Name | Description | Default Quota (Base services provided at no cost to UW Researchers) |
Cost Above Quota |
| Data Storage | |||
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Pathfinder S3 Storage |
S3 bucket storage, on-premises. |
N/A |
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VAST storage (Data-Alcova) |
General storage |
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VAST storage (Medicinebow Cluster) |
Cluster storage. |
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| HPC Cluster Services | |||
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Initial Project Setup and Configuration |
Initial project creation and setup, creation of user accounts associated with project, and administrative efforts. |
Setup with standard data storage quotas (listed above) provided at no cost to UW researchers |
Free setup with standard data storage rates |
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Hardware Reservation Configuration |
Users may choose to purchase exclusive access to HPC node(s) and granted exclusive access to total CPU/GPU hours available on the node(s) over the reservation time period. |
N/A |
$100 / reservation base cost + CPU/GPU compute by hours reserved, billed per above quota pricing |
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Medicine Bow CPU Hours |
2x AMD 48c 9454, 768GB memory CPU Node |
(*up to 100,000 total non-investment CPU core hrs/year) |
$0.0039453 / core-hour above quota |
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Medicine Bow A30 GPU Hours |
2x AMD 48c 9454, 768GB memory, 8x A30 24GB GPU Node |
(*up to 20,000 GPU hrs/year in total. - GPU hrs are calculated as combined sum of all GPU hours over 1 year, independent of GPU type) |
$0.1291350 / GPU-hour above quota |
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Medicine Bow L40S GPU Hours |
2x AMD 48c 9454, 768GB memory, 8x L40S 48GB GPU Node |
$0.1802285 / GPU-hour above quota |
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Medicine Bow H100 GPU hours |
2x AMD 48c 9454, 1.5TB memory, 8x H100-SXM 80GB GPU Node |
$0.6210779 / GPU-hour above quota |
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| Node Investment | |||
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HPC Investment Services |
User granted unlimited access to run jobs on purchased nodes. *See Node Estimates |
N/A |
$ per node or hardware unit Varies, dependent on hardware specs. (*See Node Purchase Estimates) |
| User Accounts | |||
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Account Setup/Initialization |
Initial setup and configuration of a single account to utilize ARCC resources. |
Initial account creations associated with UWYO domain accounts. |
$10 / account created for an external collaborator |
| Misc Services | |||
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ARCC Personnel Consultation |
Consultation and collaboration on miscellaneous project work that does not fit into above listed services |
ARCC provides “best effort" help and consultation for our users at no cost |
$25 / personnel-hour |
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Additional Software Installation/Configuration |
Additional software installation/configurations and ARCC staff consultation after initial project setup |
$25 / personnel-hour |
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Miscellaneous Services |
Miscellaneous services are charged based on costs associated with hardware, configuration, installation, number of users, data storage quotas, and personnel hours. If we are able meet the requirements of the requested service, the requestor will be provided with a quote from ARCC personnel detailing project charges. *ARCC may charge for personnel hours associated with project planning depending on complexity of the request. |
Varies - Provided via project quote |
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