The university is committed to providing its researchers with a secure and powerful environment to conduct research. To show our commitment, UMB will be offering the use of the Standard SRE to you free of charge. Researchers can leverage the power and flexibility of the cloud, while maintaining data compliance, completely free. Whether used daily, weekly or monthly, the price will be ZERO.
Should your research project not fit the Standard SRE, a custom research environment can be crafted to fit your needs. Due to the nature of the cloud, any custom-compute scenario will utilize a consumption based, or pay-as-you-go, pr icing model.
The following are example custom-compute scenarios and their associated compute costs. These estimates do not include storage.
| Classification | Example Use-case | Size | Details | Cost /hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Workstation | Desktop replacement | D4s_v5 | vCPU: 4 RAM: 16GB |
$0.17 |
| GPU Accelerated Workstation | AI training | NC6 | vCPU: 6 Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2690 v3 (Haswell) RAM: 56GB Temp Storage: 340GB GPU: Nvidia Tesla K80 GPU (24GB) |
$0.81 |
| High Performance Compute Workstation | Genomic analysis | HBv4 | Cores: 176 Processor: AMD EPYC 9V33X (Genoa-X) RAM: 768GB Temp Storage: 3600GB |
$6.48 |
Please note, software is NOT included in the pricing. The university is covering the cost of compute. The faculty researcher and/or the research sponsor would need to acquire software licenses needed for the project.