Equipment and facilities FEC charge out list

Will I incur a charge for using RCS services?

High Performance Computing

Standard access to our High Performance Computing systems is unmetered and free-at-the-point-of-use.

This includes:

  • A fair share access to computer resources, where your jobs are scheduled as resources permit.
  • A standard entitlement of 1TB of private working space.
  • Access to advice from our support team.

Please refer to our "Get Access" web page for information on how to register for our key services.

Express access

If you find yourself requiring more than the standard service provides, for example to meet a specific deadline, you may pay for express access.  The current charges for express access are: 

CPU Compute: is £0.01 per (physical) core-hour. We currently have 3 options available:

High-Throughput Compute: Nodes with 24 cores, 128GB of memory and low-performance interconnect
High-End Compute: Nodes with 28 cores, 128GB of memory and high-performance interconnect.
General Compute: nodes with 128 cores, 960gb of memory and mid-performance interconnect.

GPU Compute: £0.13/GPU-hour, with Nvidia Quadro RTX 6000 GPUs, up to 8 GPUs, 16 cores and 192GB of memory per job.

If you are a PI or grant holder you can create an express access account directly via the self-service portal. 

Each individually funded research project receives an entitlement of 2TB of online storage, split across all of the associated RDS project allocations. We consider a research project to be a unique entry in the college's grant management system - i.e. a project account with a P or PS code. Non-project GL accounts can also be used but these receive no standard entitlement.