Services Cost Calculator

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Estimate annual costs for Research Computing and Data compute, storage, and services.

Use this calculator to estimate annual costs for Research Computing and Data resources. Adjust the quantities and select Calculate to generate a shareable, printable estimate.

Compute

CPU shares $1,000 / share / yr (1 share = 80 cores) V100 GPUs $1,500 / GPU / yr A100 GPUs $2,500 / GPU / yr H200 GPUs $3,500 / GPU / yr — currently unavailable L40s GPUs $3,500 / GPU / yr — currently unavailable

Virtual Servers

Server tier Support level Quantity

Containers

Container type Quantity

DartFS Storage

Storage type Amount (TB)

Free: 50GB personal (HOME) for all users; 1TB free for Faculty per Bill-of-Rights — not included in this estimate.

Note: a non-snapshot directory requires an existing or new non-snapshot directory

Consulting & Custom Development

Rate Hours

Bill-of-Rights level consulting is free. Contact us for budgets and quotes.

SysAdmin Support

SysAdmin support $2,000 / yr (flat)

Granite — Secure HPC (PHI / sensitive data)

CPU cores $256.59 / core / yr Memory (GB) $128.29 / GB / yr A40 GPUs $1,750 / GPU / yr Storage (TB) $335.53 / TB / yr

Granite is billed monthly based on usage; figures shown are annualized.

System Pricing Estimate

Dartmouth Research Computing & Data

Item	Quantity	Unit price	Subtotal
Estimated total (per year)

This is a non-binding estimate generated by the RCD cost calculator. Final pricing is confirmed by Research Computing & Data.

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