Get access to Colossus
The usage of Colossus cluster is a service on demand. The project administrator can request access to the Colossus resources when applying for a new project in TSD (i.e. in the project application form). Alternatively the administrator of an existing TSD project can request access to the resources by sending a mail to tsd-drift@usit.uio.no.
The application will be processed within five working days after submission and the project administrator will be informed by e-mail when the Colossus cluster is accessible from the linux submit VM.
Get more CPU hours and disk on Colossus
When a project gets access to Colossus resources, it has a 200k CPU hours quota in the TSD queue. We recommend UIO-users to apply for Sigma2 quota to get access the to the larger Sigma2 queue (tick the "Services for Sensitive Data" in the application on https://www.metacenter.no/mas/application/project/).
Non-UiO projects will pay for the CPU hours actually used over a year (the invoice covers the usage between 1st October and 30th September the year after).
Prices for CPU hours, storage and backup on Colossus
The prices depend on the affiliation of the TSD project that in turn depends (in most cases) on the affiliation of the Data Controller.
We will invoice annually in October each year for the usage of the CPU hours in the period between October 1st the previous year and September 30th, the current year. Disk usage is invoiced for the same period. We recommend UIO-users to apply for Sigma2 quota for CPU + GPU (check "Services for Sensitive Data" in the application on https://www.metacenter.no/mas/application/project/).
Check the usage of CPU hours on Colossus
The CPUh usage can be checked at any time by running the cost command:
$ cost Report for account p11 on Colossus Allocation period 2020.1 (2020-04-01 -- 2020-10-01) Last updated on Fri Aug 28 10:36:02 2020 =========================================================== Account Description Billing hours % of limit =========================================================== p11 Used (finished) 722.56 0.7 % p11 Reserved (running) 0.00 0.0 % p11 Pending (waiting) 0.00 0.0 % p11 Available 99277.44 99.3 % p11 Limit 100000.00 100.0 % ===========================================================
The usage refers to a 6 month period starting October 1st or April 1st. The yearly invoice will cover two consecutive periods.
Add the --details argument to view the per user CPUh usage:
$ cost --details Report for account p11 on Colossus Allocation period 2020.1 (2020-04-01 -- 2020-10-01) Last updated on Fri Aug 28 10:24:40 2020 =========================================================== Account Description Billing hours % of limit =========================================================== p11 Used (finished) 722.56 0.7 % p11 Reserved (running) 0.00 0.0 % p11 Pending (waiting) 0.00 0.0 % p11 Available 99277.44 99.3 % p11 Limit 100000.00 100.0 % =========================================================== Account User Used billing hours % of limit =========================================================== p11 p11-kjpe 702.08 0.7 % p11 p11-bartt 20.46 0.0 % p11 p11-bhm 0.03 0.0 % ===========================================================
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