Historic IT Charging Details
Details of previous IT charging mechanisms
Historic ChargES
Compute Time Charges
Period | Compute Charge £/h |
2014-07/2017 | 0.03 |
Account Charges
Period | Low Usage Account Charge £/pa (pro rata) | Normal Account Charge £/pa (pro rata) | Compute Charge £/h |
2014-2017 | 100 | 1000 | 0.03 |
08/2017-07/2025 | 210 | 1500 | N/A |
Storage Charges
Period | Disk Charge £ per TB per year | | |
Allocated Unused |
Working Space (Scratch) |
Group Storage | |
2014-2017 | 240 | 480 | 1200 |
08/2017-07/2022 | N/A | 0 | 50 |
08/2022-07/2023 | N/A | 0 | 57 |
08/2023-07/2024 | N/A | 0 | 39 |
08/2024-07/2025 | N/A | 0 | 36 |
Historic CHARGING DETAILS
ACCOUNT CHARGE - 2017-2025
All accounts will be subject to a service provision charge based on the number of accounts active in the previous year and the budgeted costs for running the computing facilities:
- (Intended) Hardware Purchases - four year amortisation period
- Staff costs
- Third-party support costs (not disk/cluster related)
- Third-party Service rental costs
- Software licensing (not disk/cluster related)
Where an account is deemed to be a low usage account (less than ten gigabytes of disk allocation, less than one hour of compute usage) this fee will be capped at £100. The charge is pro rata, for example an account active for 6 months would pay 50% of the charge (i.e. £500 or £50 depending on usage).
DISK USAGE RENTAL FEE - 2017-2025
All accounts will be subject to a disk usage rental fee to cover the costs of providing data storage:
- (Intended) Hardware Purchases - four year amortisation period
- Tape purchase
- Software licensing
- Third-party support costs
This charge comprises of the following:
- A low charge for disk space of any type allocated but unused
- A medium charge for disk space used but unprotected by our data backup systems (scratch folder)
- A higher charge for disk space used in one of the tape backup protected areas (home folders and /vols/Data)
CLUSTER USAGE CHARGES - Pre 2017
Where an account uses the compute cluster a charge will be levied on the cpu time used in the charging period for standard jobs, and on the wall time for interactive tasks.