Prices

The table below indicates the prices of our services for the structural units of University of Tartu and users outside of the University.

The prices were set in accordance to ruling Tartu 29.12.2023 nr. 3-1/AT/267, and are valid since December 29th, 2023. The financial source for receiving the income is ELTATHPC. The individual responsible for billing is the manager of the HPC Center, Ivar Koppel.

Don’t hesitate to write to support@hpc.ut.ee, if you have any questions about calculating the price.

HPC Compute servers
  • 0.012 euros per CPU core hour or
  • 0.012 euros per 6 GB of memory/hour.
  • 0.5 euros per GPU hour.

  • Memory usage is calculated by 6 GB segments.
    (price depends on the use of which resource is greater). **
Storage space
  • 80 euros per 1 TB per year
  • In case of 2x replicated data, 160 euros per 1 TB per year.

  • A copy stored on tape costs 30 euros per 1 TB per year.

  • Replicated + tape stored data costs 190 euros per 1 TB per year.
S3 object storage
  • 160 euros per 1 TB per year

  • NB! The service does not incur any data retrieval or data transfer cost!
Administrator's hourly rate
  • 60 euros per hour

  • (will be applied in case the desired software requires unusually long and complicated installation process).
Virtual server hosting
  • 0.003 euros per core hour
  • 0.0013 euros per RAM(GB) hour
  • 0.138 euros per SSD storage (TB) hour

  • (billing is the sum of used resources cost) ***
Kubernetes container managed service
  • 0.003 euros per core hour
  • 0.0013 euros per RAM(GB) hour
  • 0.138 euros per SSD storage (TB) hour

  • (Billing is per usage or per request, whichever is greater. Accounting resolution is usage per minute.)
Server maintenance
  • 50 euros per server per month.
  • Includes monitoring and installation of security updates.
LUMI (Large Unified Modern Infrastructure)
  • 0.008 EUR/CPU core/hour
  • 0.35 EUR/GPU/hour
  • User home directory: free
  • Project storage (persistent and scratch): 0.0106 EUR/TB/hour
  • Flash based scratch storage is billed at the rate 10 x 0.0106 EUR/TB/hour
Waldur hosting
  • Small: up to 100 users - 99€/month ****
  • Medium: up to 500 users - 199€/month ****
  • Large: more than 500 users - 349€/month ****

* When determining the order of starting compute jobs, jobs with higher priority are given preference.

** Accounting of the use the computing servers is based on the amount of memory (with 1 unit being equal to 6 GB of RAM/h) and processors (with 1 unit being equal to 1 core hour) allocated to the user’s job(s).

For the structural units of University of Tartu, the price is based on whichever resource has more units allocated to it. For instance, for a job that uses 1 core and 2 GB of memory, and runs for 10 hours, the price is max(1, 2/6)*10*0.012=0.12 euros, but for a job that uses 1 core and 12 GB of memory, and runs for 10 hours, the price is max(1, 12/6)*10*0.012=0.24 euros.

*** For example, in case of a virtual server m.xsmall flavor with 1 processor core, 1GB of ram and 10GB of SSD storage space allocated for it, will cost 1*0.003*24*365 = 26 euros per year for the CPU and 1*0.0013*24*365 = 11 euros per year for RAM and 1/10*0.138*24*365 = 120 euros per year for the storage space

**** Hosting includes backups, availability monitoring, upgrades and integration with UT HPC helpdesk. Billing is once a year at the beginning of the billing period (the minimum contract period is one year). If, during the billing period, the number of users increases, the next bill will include the additional fee from the past period (the difference between pricing tiers). There is no refund for unused seats.