Rates

Rates for Farm

As of October 2023, the rates for Farm:

Node and Storage Rates (each buy-in guarantees access for 5 years):

• Parallel (CPU) node: $13,500 (512 GB RAM, 128 cores/256 threads, 2 TB /scratch)
• Bigmem node: 128 cores/256 threads, 2TB RAM (bml, bmm, bmh partitions) - $25,000
• GPU: $19,500 1/4 of a GPU node (A100 with 80GB GPU RAM, 16 CPU cores / 32 threads, 256GB system RAM)
• Storage: $100/TB with compression for five years (does not include backups) 

Bring your own equipment:

Equipment may be purchased directly by researchers based on actual cost. Equipment quote available upon request.

• Equipment purchases not using the above rates - $375/year per rack unit for five years

Farm allows for online storage purchases on the Hippo portal. For information on purchasing other resources on Farm, please email farm-help@ucdavis.edu. 

Rates for Hive

The Office of Research (OR) Vice Chancellor's Office has approved establishing the HPCCF recharge rates starting May 1, 2023. These rates are effective for the Genome Center cluster LSSC0 and the HPC-managed cluster, Hive. As with Farm, researchers may purchase HPC-approved equipment directly based on actual cost. An equipment quote is available upon request. Affiliate rates are only available to UC Davis investigators.

The rates are as follows (and are subject to change with approval of the UC Davis Rate Committee):

System Administration hourly rate:

A rate of $86.50/hour to cover associated FTE costs for special projects.

These rates are based on a five-year system resource lifetime (five-year warranty).

For more information or to purchase Hive resources, please email hpc-help@ucdavis.edu.