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Computing Resources
| Service Request Form | Cost | Use Case Description and Guidelines | ||||||||||||
| One-time Startup Allocation | No Cost to PIs | Start here to get 50,000 CPU core-hours of computing time on each cluster and 5TB of project storage to test drive what CRCD offers. Duration: active for 1 year. | ||||||||||||
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Scope: for new, renewals, and supplementals |
Filling out a request form |
Continue here if you have used up your startup and need additional resources. Duration: active for 1 year and renewable annually.
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| Course allocation | No Cost to Instructors | For courses, workshops, or other training activities. Computing time and storage will be provisioned as needed. Duration: active for 1 term (4 months). | ||||||||||||
| Community-Owned Resources | Varies based on hardware | Community-owned infrastructure contributors gain the highest-priority access to resources proportional to their investment. Owner-dedicated resources function like locally managed systems, with idle cycles contributing to a shared community pool. Non-owner jobs in the pool are preempted by owner jobs when needed. | ||||||||||||
| Secure Research Environment (SRE) |
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A restricted computing/data environment suitable for analysis of data sets with identifiable protected health information. |
Data Storage Resources
| Service Request Form | Amount | Tier ( File System) | Cost | Use Case Description |
| Provisioned with Startup Allocation, submit a help ticket if this was not set up for you. | 5 TB | Standard (iX) | No Cost to PIs | Hard disk drive-based storage space for housing "warm" project data, or compute jobs with lower I/O needs. |
| Provisioned with Startup Allocation, submit a help ticket if this was not set up for you. | 1 TB | Performance (VAST) | No Cost to PIs | All flash-based storage that is best for AI and data-intensive workloads requiring lots of reads and/or writes to the file system. |
| Standard Storage > 5 TB | > initial 5 TB | Standard (iX) | $65/TB/year | Standard storage needs exceed initial 5 TB allocation. |
| Performance Storage > 1 TB | > initial 1 TB | Performance (VAST) | $85/TB/year | Performance storage needs exceed initial 1 TB allocation. |
Special Purpose Resources
| Service Request Form | Cost | Use Case Description |
| EDA Environment | No cost to PIs | A secured environment to support electronic design automation, with access to licensed PDKs (Process Design Kit). Please complete the survey form to get started. |