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Computing Resources
| Service Request Form | Cost | Use Case Description and Guidelines | ||||||||||||
| One-time Startup Allocation | No Cost to PIs | Start here to get 50,000 CPU core-hours of computing time on each cluster and 5TB of project storage to test drive what CRCD offers. Duration: active for 1 year. | ||||||||||||
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Scope: for new, renewals, and supplementals |
Filling out a request form |
If you have used up your startup and need additional resources, requests for additional resources are submitted directly from within the CRCD's online accounting system. Users need to be logged on the toe Pitt VPN to access the system. Detailed instructions on how to submit a request are available in the CRCD user manual. |
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| Course allocation | No Cost to Instructors | For courses, workshops, or other training activities. Computing time and storage will be provisioned as needed. Duration: active for 1 term (4 months). | ||||||||||||
| Community-Owned Resources | Varies based on hardware | Community-owned infrastructure contributors gain the highest-priority access to resources proportional to their investment. Owner-dedicated resources function like locally managed systems, with idle cycles contributing to a shared community pool. Non-owner jobs in the pool are preempted by owner jobs when needed. | ||||||||||||
| Secure Research Environment (SRE) |
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A restricted computing/data environment suitable for analysis of data sets with identifiable protected health information. |
Data Storage Resources
| Service Request Form | Amount | Tier ( File System) | Cost | Use Case Description |
| Provisioned with Startup Allocation, submit a help ticket if this was not set up for you. | 5 TB | Standard (iX) | No Cost to PIs | Hard disk drive-based storage space for housing "warm" project data, or compute jobs with lower I/O needs. |
| Provisioned with Startup Allocation, submit a help ticket if this was not set up for you. | 1 TB | Performance (VAST) | No Cost to PIs | All flash-based storage that is best for AI and data-intensive workloads requiring lots of reads and/or writes to the file system. |
| Standard Storage > 5 TB | > initial 5 TB | Standard (iX) | $30/TB/year | Standard storage needs exceed initial 5 TB allocation. |
| Performance Storage > 1 TB | > initial 1 TB | Performance (VAST) | $85/TB/year | Performance storage needs exceed initial 1 TB allocation. |
Special Purpose Resources
| Service Request Form | Cost | Use Case Description |
| EDA Environment | No cost to PIs | A secured environment to support electronic design automation, with access to licensed PDKs (Process Design Kit). Please complete the survey form to get started. |