Information Technology (DSBIT)
Pricing
Below you will find the costs of services provided by Columbia University's Department of Systems Biology Information Technology group (DSBIT). If you still have questions or would like to speak with someone about your needs, please contact us .
All fees indicated below are prorated for duration except where noted otherwise.
Note on restricted funds
As a courtesy to Columbia research labs, all invoices will contain calculations for services that can be paid with government grants funds and in-direct funds. (This does not apply to non-Columbia customers.)
| SERVICE | Member Rate | External Rate | Comments |
| HPC: CPU | $0.0200/core/hour | $0.0300/core/hour | Node configuration varies |
| HPC: Memory | $0.0067/gb/hour | $0.0100/core/hour | Node configuration varies |
| HPC: Full node | $4468/year | $7240/year | For 12-core, 32 GB Mem |
| Support: Desktop | $1155/year | $1871/year | Full service |
| Support: Infrastructure | $420/year | $680/year | Initial setup, additional services cahrged per hour |
| Support: Unix | $105/user/year | $170/user/year | Required only if HPC cluster used |
| Hosting: Rack | $13650/year | $22113/year | For 42U, 5KW rack |
| Hosting: Server | $4468/year | $7240/year | One VM with 1-core, 8GB memory, CentOS |
| Hosting: Web | $373/site/year | $604/site/year | Website on VM infrastructure |
| Hosting: DB | $75/db/year | $121/db/year | One database on a shared MariaDB server |
| Storage: Home | $773/TB/year | $1314/TB/year | High bandwidth, Backed up, NFS and SMB shared |
| Storage: Data | $811/TB/year | $1314/TB/year | High bandwidth, Backed up, NFS and SMB shared |
| Storage: Scratch | $271/TB/year | $439/TB/year | High bandwidth, NFS mounted on HPC cluster only |
| Storage: Archive | $115/TB/year | $187/TB/year | Low bandwidth, Administrator-assisted writes |
Please note:
[1] This table is not exhaustive and may not be up to date. Please contact us to get the latest service offerings, or if there is any confusion, specially if you are planning a large computing project to avoid any surprises.
[2] Accounting is done only when a compute job finishes, not the day it was submitted/started. For example, if a job was queued on Jan 1st, started executing on Jan 3, finished on Feb 2, it will be billed for the month of Feb, not Jan.
[3] In order to be fully transparent, the HPC charges are computed every midnight.
[4] A monthly usage report is automatically emailed to the PI and/or his/her delegate. If you want it emailed daily, please contact us.
[5] Accounting for billing is done on the last mid-night of each month. Minimum billing period for every service is one calendar month.