The ARCHIE-WeSt Service for Industry Users
Why use High Performance Computing? Take a look at our explainer video:
What ARCHIE-WeSt Offers
We offer new Industrial Customers:
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- free 1000 core-hours along with basic training and support to enable you to get up and running
- 250 GB free storage (expandable)
- maximum job size of 400 cores
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This will enable you to evaluate our service at no cost (software licensing costs may be applicable).
Once you move beyond the evaluation phase, we offer:
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- the highest priority service for industrial users
- installation of software as required. In the case of the commercially licensed software the User is responsible for obtaining appropriate licenses*
- responsive support by a highly professional team
- automatic backup of the User home directory (for 15 days*)
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Additional services may include:
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- consultancy
- specific software training
- fast data transfer
- remote access to visualization servers
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* See Terms and Conditions for the details. Full Terms and Conditions are available here.
What ARCHIE-WeSt Costs
The minimum purchase is £1000 (ex VAT) per project, corresponding to 20,000 core-hours.
Our basic price is £0.05 per core-hour. A core-hour means using a single CPU-core for 1 hour. Most of our servers have 40 cores, therefore, occupying a server for one hour would cost £2.00. Discounts may be offered for high volume purchases (>100 thousand core-hours). There is a monthly charge for extra data storage of £10 per 500GB for every part of 500GB used. VAT will be charged at the usual rates as appropriate.
Support
The standard level of basic User support is one-hour of support for every £1000 of compute time purchased.
Additional User support, including more specialist software training, can be purchased upon negotiation with ARCHIE-WeSt staff.