The Office of Information Technology Research Computing Team offers several Workstations as a Service Offerings.
- Windows Workstations - Ubuntu Workstations - Centos / Rocky Linux -
- Long Life Release(s) of the Operating Systems
- 4 - 64 core workstations with 16 - 512 GB of ram
- 256 GB of storage
- Mounts to HPC Cluster Home Directory, Scratch, and NVME disk arrays
- Workstations are provided in the form of Virtual Machines hosted on our KVM and VMware ESXi Hosting environments.
Workstations are typically shared among a group of researchers and cost between $56 and $900 per month based on the Research Computing Costing chart. Teams of researchers who purchase server/workstation hardware for this purpose and do not share that service with other Colleges will be required to pay for hosting the equipment at the cost of $16 per U per Month of data center space. (Research Computing Services VPC and Data Center Hosting)
These charges include:
- Windows and Linux Updates
- Identity Management
- Access via SSH and/or Microsoft Remote Desktop through the Academic Networks
- Access to Research Computing Drives shares (Home, Scratch)
These charges do not include:
- Custom Software Support
- Backups
- End User technical support should be provided by the researcher's College Information Technology Team. OIT must charge our service rate for Technical Support above and beyond the included services list.