Investment Program

Intent

The investment program is for researchers who want dedicated resources over some period of time:

• For long-term (1-5 year) project needs

• Reserved compute hardware via dedicated partition (with preemptable overlay)

• Expansion of /projects storage via quota increase

• Requestable through 4help

If you are less interested in dedicated hardware and just want to use more resources than ARC provides for free – for example, in bursts before conference deadlines – you might instead consider the Cost Center.

Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)

An investment Memoradum Of Understanding (MOU) is available to formalize the agreement. For example investment MOUs, see below:

• Example MOU for purchasing computing resources

• Example MOU for purchasing storage capacity

Researchers who purchase resources via the investment program retain the ownership and exclusive access to their equipment. ARC will install, operate, and maintain the hardware on behalf of the researchers. Only when the researchers are not using their computing equipment, the idle cycles will be pooled into the preemptable partitions of the cluster for others users to take advantage of spare capacity.

To Invest

If you have interest in learning more about the Investment Computing Program, please submit a consultation request. ARC can provide a brief presentation on the Investment Computing program at department meetings or to research teams if desired.