ACCRE is supported by a combination of faculty funds, grant dollars, and institutional support.聽
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.聽
ACCRE's pricing model is designed to recover only the direct costs of delivering reliable, secure, and compliant research computing infrastructure. Rates reflect the actual costs of hardware, networking, software licensing, technical support, data center operations, security, and compliance. For VU and VUMC researchers, the Office of the Vice Provost for Research and Innovation further subsidizes these costs by funding all data center power and cooling expenses, reducing the fees charged to users.
Pricing
| Category | Service | Subsidized Monthly Price to VU and VUMC | Full Price | Additional Information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cluster Storage | /data | $7/TB | $9/TB | Backed up, cluster facing storage |
| Data Storage | /nobackup | $6/TB | $8/TB | Not backed up |
| ACCRE Object Storage S3 | ACCRE Object Storage S3 | $5/TB | $7/TB | Not backed up |
| CPU Rent | CPU Rent Fee | $6/core | $16/core | Minimum 2-core for 3-month rental for membership |
| GPU Rent | GPU Rent Fee | $125 per Level 1 Card $250 per Level 2 Card | $400 per Level 1 Card $800 per Level 2 Card | Minimum 1 card for 3-month commitment |
| Support Fees | Support Fee (bulk capacity plan required) | CPU & GPU Support : $105/server Storage Support: $306/100 TB hosted | $400/ server $700/100TB | Bulk capacity plan required |
| Software Engineer Hours/ACCREx | Software Engineer For Hire Service | $84/hr | $153/hr | Prices vary year to year |
| ACCRE L3E | NIST 800-171 Compliant Level 3 Environment | TBD | Pricing Coming Soon |
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 2-core CPU rent per year.聽 You can scale up or scale down the number of cores rented at any given time by opening a 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 Reserved Instance
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鈥檚 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 Reserved Instance, the group will receive a fairshare for the total number of CPU cores or GPUs on the reservation. Ongoing support fees apply for five years and must be reassessed at the end of the reservation.
- 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.
Support and Rental 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.
Cluster Storage
If you would like to request or for your group, please visit iLab and Billing for additional information on requesting paid services.
Tape Backups
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