Research Computing Services

Summary

All Florida Atlantic University faculty, researchers, employees, and students may request access to the research computing resources using the following complimentary and paid research computing resources.

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The Office of Information Technology provides numerous services to support researchers, departments, and centers. Some resources are offered on a complimentary basis to help encourage research. These resources include 300 GB of raw storage and access to low-priority compute resources on our long (7-day) and short (6-hour) queues.

To request access please submit an account request ticket.

Complimentary Services Per Month  Total
Storage  –  300 GB without backup
CPU compute hours Unlimited longq submissions 20,000 hours of shortq submissions  –

 

Beyond the above complimentary services, certain services may be purchased through our Research Computing Auxiliary. These include storage, backups, enhanced priority jobs, GPU/AI accelerators, data center hosting, consultation, and virtual machines. 

The Office of Information Technology Research Computing Auxiliary Core has three service schedules, and these services are charged per-month by default but may be charged annually upon request.

Service Schedules:

  • Sponsored Research
  • Internal FAU Entities
  • External Entities


Internal Entities schedule of fees: FAU Faculty, Staff, and Student Users

Paid Services Sponsored Research Internal External Entities
RAW Storage (no backups provided) $11.44/TB  $13.33/TB $16/TB
Long-term Storage Unit w/ backups $27.03/TB  $31.50/TB $37.80/TB
Replicated Storage Unit w/ backups and replication to another campus $54.07/TB  $63/TB $75.60/TB
Queued Normalized Compute Unit $8.30 $9.67 $11.60
Normalized GPU Unit $73.24 $85.33 $100.36
Virtual Private Server Unit $12.05 $14.04 $168.50
Consultation $100.02 (per hour) $114.19 (per hour) $137.03 (per hour)
Data Center Hosting Per U (minimum of 4U) 13.73 $16 / U $192
Electrical Circuit - 30 Amp $5.17 $6.03 $72.36
Google Cloud Storage $30 / TB $34.26 $41.11
Microsoft Cloud Storage $30 / TB $34.26 $41.11

Definitions:

Virtual Private Server Unit:
Includes access to one Virtual CPU, 4 GB of RAM, and a 128 GB HDD.

Queued Normalized Compute Unit:
Includes access to one Physical CPU core per unit.

Data Center Hosting:
Data center hosting is charged per U but a minimum of 4U must be purchased. Data center hosting includes...
1 x C13/14 power connections per U
750 watts of power @ 220V per U
 

For information on a consultation for our services, click here

 

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Article ID: 142149
Created
Tue 9/27/22 7:44 AM
Modified
Fri 6/21/24 2:48 PM