We have determined the "Seasonal coefficient" and "Fuel coefficient" for the 2024 fiscal year. Please refer to this for details.

To use the large-scale computer systems offered by the Cybermedia Center, users need to pay a service charge. The service charge is necessary to satisfy the users' requests and requirements. The charge then helps to improve the quality of our service although the Cybermedia Center is financially supported in part for completion of our mission. The service charge is in proportion to the user's amount of consumed computational resources. "Node-hour" in shared-use mode is explained here. "point" in shared-use mode is explained here.

Service charge list

Rule excerpt from the "Service Charge Rule of Osaka University, Section 3, Part 17, Service charge of the Cybermedia Center's large-scale computer systems".
 

(1)Service charge for SQUID

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• 10-percent consumption tax of the total service charge is added based on the above rule.
  Note that the total service charge is calculated as follows in the case of Industrial use (non-disclosure type). The service charge based on the above rule is multiplied by 5 and then 10-percent consumption tax of the multiplied service charge is added.
• The service charge is only valid within the Japanese fiscal year.
• 5 TB storage space for HDD is allocated to each application request.
  This allocation is only valid for the first application.
• In (A), a contract change request is accepted only when users request adding node-hours.
• In (A), the basic charge for more than 2 nodes is calculated in proportion to the node number based on the basic charge of 1 node.
• In (A), we might accept the users' application requests on the basis of a three-month period.
  In this case, the service charge per month is one-tenth of the basic charge for a 1 node-year.
• In (B), users are not allowed to change courses.
  However, a request for additional courses is permitted.
• The consumed SQUID point is calculated as follows: The consumed node-hours is multiplied by consumption, seasonal and fuel coefficients. Seasonal coefficient is set to a value (0<value<=1) based on the system utilization situation in the previous fiscal year. Fuel coefficient is set to a value based on latest electric power rates.

  Consumption coefficient
  Node type	high-priority	normal-priority	share
  General purpose CPU node	0.3746	0.2998	0.2248
  GPU node	2.2934	1.8348	1.3762
  Vector node	1.4140	1.1312	0.8484

  Node type	Seasonal coefficient (April 1, 2024 - March 31, 2025)				Fuel coefficient
  	Apr-Jun	Jul-Sep	Oct-Dec	Jan-Mar
  General purpose CPU node	FY 2024 is "1" throughout the year.				0.85 (as of April 2024)
  GPU node
  Vector node

  Please see here for details on points.

• (C) is only valid within the Japanese fiscal year.
• In (C), HDD 500 TB and SSD 10 TB are the upper limit per a single application request.

(2)Service charge for ONION (object storage)

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• (C) is only valid within the Japanese fiscal year.
• 10-percent consumption tax of the total service charge is added based on the above rule.