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Computation & Applied Statistics Consulting (CASL)

Recharge rates are subject to change with approval from the UC San Diego Recharge Rate Committee. Normal IDC rules apply.
Service	Unit	UC Rate	Non-UC Rate
CASL Contract	Hour	$70	Available upon request.
CASL Consulting	Hour	$99	Available upon request.
Engineering Contract	Hour	$110	Available upon request.
Engineering Consulting	Hour	$145	Available upon request.

Colocation Services

Recharge rates are subject to change with approval from the UC San Diego Recharge Rate Committee. Normal IDC rules apply.
Service	Unit	UCSD Rate	UC Rate	Non-UC Rate
Rack space	Rack	$44.76	$572.60	Available upon request.
High Security Rack Add-On	Rack		$134.26	Available upon request.
Reserved Rack Space	Rack		$187.58	Available upon request.
UPS Service	KW		$15.75	Available upon request.
Generator Generator power requires UPS service.	KW		$14.50	Available upon request.
High Density Service Unit	SU		$119.83	Available upon request.
1Gb Network Port	Port		$24.42	Available upon request.
10Gb Network Port	Port		$129.60	Available upon request.
10Gb Core Network Connection Core Connections are always redundant connections and must be purchased in pairs. Actual cost is double the connection rate listed.	Port		$187.61	Available upon request.
40GbE Network Port	Port		$189.98	Available upon request.
40Gb Core Network Connection Core Connections are always redundant connections and must be purchased in pairs. Actual cost is double the connection rate listed.	Port		$263.93	Available upon request.
Disk Drive Shredding	Disk		$10.00	Available upon request.
Consulting	Hour		$110.88	Available upon request.
Utilities	KW		Utilities will be charged at the actual rate of consumption. Utilities charges for UC San Diego customers are paid for by campus.	Utilities will be charged at the actual rate of consumption.

Conference Room Rental

Recharge rates are subject to change with approval from the UC San Diego Recharge Rate Committee. Normal IDC rules apply.
Service	Unit	UC Rate	Non-UC Rate
Auditorium B210, B211 & B212, Ground Level East Building Max occupancy 200 Standard Setup: Seating for 130 in a combination of armed and tablet chairs in 2/3 of room. 6 tables (6’x2’) and 5 café tables in other 1/3. Additional tables on north and west walls. Custom Setup (additional cost for labor): Max 200 occupants. Combination of armed and tablet chairs available. 30 tables (6’x2’) and 5 café tables also available. No table linens provided. Outdoor Patio: 12 (60" round) tables and 32 folding chairs. No table linens provided. There is no additional rental fee to use the patio. Audio/Visual: 3 Projectors (left, center, right) 4 Microphones (2 lavalier mics, 2 handheld mics) Windows laptop provided (attached to lectern)	Hour	$98 first hour; $78 subsequent hours	N/A
Synthesis Center B143 East Building Standard setup: Seating for 18 people in 3 rows of tables facing projection screen. Custom setup (additional cost for labor): Max 18 occupants. Seating for 16 people in executive format (facing group). Other custom arrangements available. Audio/Visual: 3 Projectors (left, center, right) Windows laptop provided (attached to podium)	Hour	$98 first hour; $78 subsequent hours	N/A
AV/IT support SDSC will assist you for a 15 minute sound and AV projector check at no cost during regular business hours. (Monday-Friday, 8:00 AM-4:30 PM) Additional time will be charged at the hourly rate.	Hour	$80	N/A

Science Gateways

Recharge rates are subject to change with approval from the UC San Diego Recharge Rate Committee. Normal IDC rules apply.
Service	Unit	UC Rate	Non-UC Rate
SGCI Usability Engagement	Each	$5,462.83	$8,467.00
SGCI Sustainability	Hour	$102.26	$159.00
Usability Ad Hoc	Hour	$54.00	$84.00

High-Performance Computing (HPC)

Recharge rates are subject to change with approval from the UC San Diego Recharge Rate Committee. Normal IDC rules apply.
Service	Unit	UC Rate	Non-UC Rate
HPC Cycle - Expanse CPU	SU	$0.0123	Available upon request.
HPC Cycle - Expanse GPU	SU	$1.7530	Available upon request.

High-Performance Wireless and Research Education Network (HPWREN)

Recharge rates are subject to change with approval from the UC San Diego Recharge Rate Committee. Normal IDC rules apply.
Service	Unit	UC Rate	Non-UC Rate
Tier 1	Year	$65,506	$94,984
Tier 2	Year	$13,322	$19,317
Tier 3	Year	$2,210	$3,205
Chief Engineer	Hour	$189.00	$274.05
Project Engineer 2	Hour	$113.00	$163.85
Project Engineer	Hour	$95.00	$138.00

Hubzero

Recharge rates are subject to change with approval from the UC San Diego Recharge Rate Committee. Normal IDC rules apply.
Service	Unit	UC Rate	Non-UC Rate
Hubzero No Hassle Hub	Month	$2,831.64	$4,389.00
Hubzero Setup	Each	$15,519.00	$24,054.00
Hubzero Development/Consulting	Hour	$85.87	$133.00
Add on Hubzero Hosts	Month	$268.04	$415.50

Platform Services

Desktop Support

Recharge rates are subject to change with approval from the UC San Diego Recharge Rate Committee. Normal IDC rules apply.
Service	Unit	UC Rate	Non-UC Rate
Account Fee	Month	$15.59	N/A
Desktop Support	Month	$124.87	N/A
Desktop and Laptop Consulting Application installation, configuration, troubleshooting	Hour	$80	N/A

System Administration

Recharge rates are subject to change with approval from the UC San Diego Recharge Rate Committee. Normal IDC rules apply.
Service	Unit	UC Rate	Non-UC Rate
Server Administration Consulting Application installation, configuration, troubleshooting	Hour	$96	$139.20

SDSC Cloud Storage and Compute

Recharge rates are subject to change with approval from the UC San Diego Recharge Rate Committee.
Service	Unit	UC Rate	Non-UC Rate
Cloud Storage Minimum allocation 1 TB. Billed monthly storage use is averaged by monitoring space used hourly.	TB/Month	$32.16	$46.632
Cloud Compute SU's represent resource usage per hour.	SU	$0.08	$0.116
Cloud Compute On-Demand	hour	$0.0314/vCPU $0.0007/GB of RAM	Available upon request.
Volume and Volume Snapshot	GB/hour	$0.000063	$0.00009135
Image	GB/hour	$0.000063	$0.00009135
Custom Server Maintenance and Consultation Support	Hour	$98.93	$143.55

SeedMeLab

Recharge rates are subject to change with approval from the UC San Diego Recharge Rate Committee. Normal IDC rules apply.
Service	Unit	UC Rate	Non-UC Rate
SeedMeLab Lite Tier Includes 100 GB storage and 25 users	Month	$373.50	$541.58
SeedMeLab Standard Tier Includes 1 TB storage and 75 users	Month	$546	$791.67
SeedMeLab Custom Tier 1+ TB storage and 100+ users	Month	Starts at $747.08	Starts at $1083.25
Consultation	Hour	$125	$182
Additional storage per 100GB	Month	$99	$144
Additional 5 users	Month	$10	$14.50

Sherlock Data Services

Recharge rates are subject to change with approval from the UC San Diego Recharge Rate Committee. Normal IDC rules apply.
Service	Unit	UC Rate	Non-UC Rate
Managed Service Infrastructure	Instance/month	$83.44	$120.98
Consulting/Custom Solutions	Hour	$154.76	$224.40
On Prem Virtual Machine Base Cost	Unit/month	$6.06	$8.79
On Prem Virtual Machine Resources	Unit/month	$26.24	$38.04
On Prem Storage and Backup GB	Unit/GB/month	$0.06	$0.09

Spatial Data Consulting

Recharge rates are subject to change with approval from the UC San Diego Recharge Rate Committee. Normal IDC rules apply.
Service	Unit	UC Rate	Non-UC Rate
Spatial Data Consultant 1	Hour	$130.87	Available upon request.
Spatial Data Consultant 2	Hour	$156.30	Available upon request.
Spatial Data Consultant Assistant	Hour	$34.61	Available upon request.

Storage

Backups Storage (CommVault)

Recharge rates are subject to change with approval from the UC San Diego Recharge Rate Committee. Normal IDC rules apply.
Service	Unit	UC Rate	Non-UC Rate
Backup User Data User system data that needs to be backed up	TB/Month	$91.67	$132.9215
Backup Retained Data Compressed backup data saved on SDSC storage	TB/Month	$35.17	$50.9965

Cloud Storage

Recharge rates are subject to change with approval from the UC San Diego Recharge Rate Committee. Normal IDC rules apply.
Service	Unit	UC Rate	Non-UC Rate
Cloud Storage Minimum allocation 1 TB. Billed monthly storage use is averaged by monitoring space used hourly.	TB/Month	$32.16	$46.632

Project Storage (NFS)

Recharge rates are subject to change with approval from the UC San Diego Recharge Rate Committee. Normal IDC rules apply.
Service	Unit	UC Rate	Non-UC Rate
Project Storage - Condo Dedicated storage unit. Provides between ~120 TB to ~260 TB of usable space.	Unit/Month	$782.08	$1,134.016
Project Storage - Hotel NFS or CIFS/SMB share on a multi-tenant system. 1 TB minimum; 1 TB increments.	TB/Month	$45.75	$66.3375
Custom Server Maintenance and Consultation Support	Hour	$98.93	$143.55

Universal Scale Storage (SDSC Qumulo)

Recharge rates are subject to change with approval from the UC San Diego Recharge Rate Committee. Normal IDC rules apply.
Service	Unit	UC Rate	Non-UC Rate
Universal Scale Storage NFS or CIFS/SMB share on a multi-tenant high-performance storage cluster. Can also access via S3 interface. 200 TB minimum for UC customers; 66 TB minimum for non-UC customers.	TB/Month	$5.83	$17.49

Triton Shared Computing Cluster (TSCC)

TSCC Condo

Recharge rates are subject to change with approval from the UC San Diego Recharge Rate Committee. Normal IDC rules apply.
Service	Unit	UCSD Rate	UC Rate	Non-UC Rate
System Setup Fee covers racks, switches, cables, etc.	Installation	$2,519	$2,519	$3,904
Condo CPU Operations Fee per purchased node	Node/year	$1200*	$1417	$2197
Condo GPU Operations Fee per purchased node	Node/year	$2500*	$4668	$7236
Extended Systems Support	Hour	$210	$210	$325
Advanced User Support	Hour	$186	$186	$288
*Currently for UCSD participants, a portion of the Condo Operations Fee is subsidized by the UCSD Administration and SDSC. Researchers from other UC campuses may be eligible for similar subsidies from their administrations.

TSCC Hotel

Recharge rates are subject to change with approval from the UC San Diego Recharge Rate Committee. Normal IDC rules apply.
Service	Unit	UCSD Rate	UC Rate	Non-UC Rate
TSCC Cycle	SU	$0.0352	$0.0352	0.0563

Virtualization Hosting (VMWare)

Recharge rates are subject to change with approval from the UC San Diego Recharge Rate Committee. Normal IDC rules apply.
Service	Unit	UC Rate	Non-UC Rate
VM - Basic Base VM with 1 vCPU/2 GB RAM/100 GB storage.	Unit/Month	$69.75	$101.14
VM - Spec Upgrade Upgrades can be requested in 1 vCPU or 1 GB RAM units.	Unit/Month	$12.94	$18.76
VM - Storage Additional storage added to base VM. Can be requested in 1 GB units.	TB/Month	$45.67	$66.22

Web & Database Hosting

Recharge rates are subject to change with approval from the UC San Diego Recharge Rate Committee. Normal IDC rules apply.
Service	Unit	UC Rate	Non-UC Rate
Web and MySQL Database Hosting Includes Apache or Tomcat, MySQL, 4GB of space, no data transfer costs	Month	$92.59	N/A
Consultation Support Fee-for-service user support, site support, site design, and web application development	Hour	$116.26	N/A

WIFIRE Lab

Recharge rates are subject to change with approval from the UC San Diego Recharge Rate Committee. Normal IDC rules apply.
Service	Unit	UC Rate	Non-UC Rate
Annual Subscription	Year	N/A	$25,000
On-demand platform access	Hour	N/A	$110.42

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