The UF Board of Trustees has ensured that Florida educational institutions can purchase resources on HiPerGator, perform the same activities as UF faculty and staff, and are subject to the same policies, rules, and conditions governing the use of HiPerGator by UF faculty and staff.
Five Year Service Length
Prices below are for 5 year resource allocations, which match the expected industry-standard lifecycles for computational hardware. No IDC (Indirect Cost) charge is incurred. All services associated with provisioning the hardware are free to university faculty.
|
Service |
Rate |
|---|---|
1 processor core (NCU)
|
$200 / NCU |
1 NVIDIA GPU (NGU)
|
$1,200 / NGU |
1 TB orange storage (OSU)
|
$125 / OSU |
1 TB blue storage (BSU) |
$625 / BSU |
One Year Service Length
Prices below are for variable duration resource allocations selected at the time of purchase. IDC (Indirect Cost) charge is added to this type of purchase. These prices can be pro-rated to fit any length of time.
|
Service |
Rate |
|---|---|
1 processor core (NCU)
|
$44 / NCU |
1 NVIDIA GPU (NGU)
|
$260 / NGU |
1 TB orange storage (OSU)
|
$25 / OSU |
1 TB blue storage (BSU) |
$140 / BSU |
Five Year Service Rates
Prices below are for 5 year resource allocations, which match the expected industry-standard lifecycles for computational hardware. No IDC (Indirect Cost) charge is incurred. All services associated with provisioning the hardware are free to university faculty.
|
Service |
Rate |
|---|---|
1 processor core (RNCU)
|
$400 / RNCU |
1 NVIDIA GPU (RNGU)
|
$1,200 / RNGU |
1 TB regulated research storage (RRSU)
|
$825 / RRSU |
One Year Service Rates
Prices below are for variable duration resource allocations selected at the time of purchase. IDC (Indirect Cost) charge is added to this type of purchase. These prices can be pro-rated to fit any length of time.
|
Service |
Rate |
|---|---|
1 processor core (RNCU)
|
$84 / RNCU |
1 NVIDIA GPU (RNGU)
|
$260 / RNGU |
1 TB regulated research storage (RRSU)
|
$180 / RRSU |
UFIT Research Computing has a number of different training programs for users to utilize in order to make the most efficient use of their resources. From training how to use the system to in-depth consultation hours to target specific programs and algorithms that users may need for their work, a service is available to handle the needs of our customers.
| Service | Description | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| HiPerGator training | Training sessions are offered on a regular basis with topics ranging from general access to HiPerGator to specific topics in biology, chemistry, engineering, etc. | No cost |
| Restricted data training | UFIT Research Computing offers courses that meet the extended training requirement of restricted data research. Multiple courses may need to be completed depending on the data restriction. | No cost |
| Software consulting | UFIT Research Computing staff provide consulting service to a research team to enhance software, provide training, or meet other software needs. The consulting fee covers UFIT Research Computing staff time spent on the consulting service, but not the HiPerGator resource allocation. The Principle Investigator needs to purchase the allocation that is needed for the consulting project or service. | $65/hour |
| Restricted data consulting | Analysis and configuration of project workflows and applications for the restricted data environments, ResShield and HiPerGator-RV | $65/hour |
The purpose of PubApps is to provide the kind of 'long-tail' services and infrastructure that cannot be obtained or set up elsewhere or requires access to data/computational resources on HiPerGator and so on. It can give UFIT Research Computing customers a competitive edge for top-tier research and presentation of research, with such needs as: significant computational and database resources and/or application support, access to data on large parallel filesystems, or setting up services connected to data-producing hardware on premises at the University to feed into workflows running on HiPerGator.
HiPerGator Web Application Hosting a.k.a. 'PubApps' is not intended to be a generic web application hosting service. Use UFIT T4 CMS Hosting, UFIT Apache Hosting, or UFIT VM Hosting for document or web application and service hosting unrelated to HiPerGator or UF Research Computing.
If additional resources are required CPU/memory (NCU) and storage units can be purchased in the same manner as HPG resources are purchased. At this time only shared use of GPUs is supported in pubapps.
One Year Service Length
|
Service |
Rate |
|---|---|
Basic PubApps Instance
|
$300 |
PubApps CPU
|
$44 |
PubApps GPU
|
$260 |
PubApps Storage
|
$140 |
Certain external organizations may be eligible to purchase resources from UFIT Research Computing. Pricing for these purchases is separate from the subsidized rates paid by UF faculty members and research collaborators, and are delineated as follows:
- Discounted external rates are applicable to purchases by UF-supported startup companies, such as those associated with UF Innovate.
- Full external rates are applicable to purchases by a limited number of organizations that meet certain qualifications for purchasing through UFIT Research Computing.
External rates are determined by calculating the total cost recovery for providing the products and services, including amortization of equipment and infrastructure.
HiPerGator
Resource Type |
Description |
Discounted Rate |
Full Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
1 processor core
|
One priority dedicated CPU core with 4 GB of RAM, with approximately 3 GB per core usable by the software application. | $100 / NCU per year |
$155 / NCU per year |
1 NVIDIA GPU
|
One NVIDIA RTX 2080ti GPU for visualization or modeling acceleration. NVIDIA RTX-6000 can be used as well |
$550 / NGU per year |
$990 / NGU per year |
1 NVIDIA DGX A100 GPU (AGU) |
One NVIDIA A100 card in DGX A100 640GB SuperPOD configuration, requires purchase of NCU and BSU | $5000 / AGU per year | $9000 / AGU per year |
1 TB orange storage
|
One TB data storage capacity for long-term storage. | $50 / OSU per year |
$75 / OSU per year |
1 TB blue storage
|
One TB data storage capacity for high-performance storage. | $235 / BSU per year |
$330 / BSU per year |
Pubapps functionality
|
Enables one year of PUBAPPS portal functionality (up to 1 TB in size) for a resource investment. | $460 / PUBAPPS per year |
$570 / PUBAPPS per year |
Database functionality
|
Enables one year of database functionality (up to 1 TB in size) for a resource investment. | $250 / DBU per year |
$250 / DBU per year |
Consulting |
UFIT Research Computing staff provide consulting service to a research team to enhance software, provide training, or meet other software needs | $65 / Hour | $65 / Hour |
HiPerGator-RV
Resource Type |
Description |
Discounted Rate |
Full Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
1 processor core
|
One priority dedicated CPU core with 4 GB of RAM, with approximately 3 GB per core usable by the software application. | $230 / RNCU per year |
$370 / RNCU per year |
1 NVIDIA GPU
|
One NVIDIA RTX 2080ti GPU for visualization or modeling acceleration. NVIDIA RTX-6000 and Ampere A-100 can be used as well |
$550 / RNGU per year |
$990 / RNGU per year |
1 TB replicated storage
|
One TB data storage capacity for long-term, high performance storage. | $480 / RRSU per year |
$740 / RRSU per year |