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Short answer: Faculty can purchase priority access for 5 years if they pay the upfront cost for the nodes. Long answer: High-priority access is available under a “condo model,” where faculty are able to purchase semi-dedicated nodes which get made available to all users when there are unused compute cycles. Under the condo model, faculty researchers fund the capital equipment costs of individual compute nodes, while the university funds the operating costs of running these nodes for five years. Faculty who purchase compute nodes receive access to equivalent resources at a higher priority than other researchers. The faculty can designate others to receive access at the same priority level, such as their graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, etc. With priority access, computational jobs are moved higher in the queuing system, and in most cases begin execution within twelve hours, depending upon other FairShare factors. A priority user can utilize their resources indefinitely. All access to resources is managed through the cluster’s job scheduler. When a priority user is not using their assigned resources, the nodes are made available to all UConn researchers for general use. Please note that will priority users will not be given separate partitions, only custom QoS, since the QoS determines the TRES (Trackable RESources) allocated. If you are interested in investing in HPC resources, please fill out the HPC Condo Request form. |
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