Fee for SHIROKANE

Below is the usage fee for supercomputer system SHIROKANE.

SHIROKANE Fee List for Academic Organizations

The fee list of SHIROKANE for academic users (PDF)

The queue and the number of slots of Univa Grid Engine which can be used (academic users)

Shirokane3 Fee List for Civilian Agencies

The fee list of SHIROKANE for private company users (PDF)

The queue and the number of slots of Univa Grid Engine which can be used (private company users)

There are various usage plans ranging from a free usage plan to a large-scale occupation usage plan.

Minute addition of resources is possible.

Application details can be changed monthly.

Corporate bodies can register as users.

Service fees for those belonging to academic research institutes such as universities can be paid out of scientific research funds, and can be paid in a lump sum at specific times of the year, such as the end of the fiscal year.

Fees can also be paid as a lump sum at the beginning of the usage plan instead of as monthly payments.

A review requires five business days (excluding weekends, holidays, and the period from December 29 to January 3).

Regulations on Use and the fee charts are reviewed annually.

If the user wishes to execute more than 128 jobs concurrently, the user needs to acquire the HGC Supercomputer License (Online Exam).

Changes related to Shirokane 4 expansion

From April, 2017, we began operation of Supercomputer System SHIROKANE which added Shirokane4 to Shirokane3.

Additional parts by adding Shirokane4 are as follows. Shirokane4 will be operated together with Shirokane3.

• Add 18 PBytes Home Disk (3 file systems)
• Add 140 compute nodes (145 TFLOPS)
• Increase cache area of archive disk by 3 PBytes

SHIROKANE changed the billing amount of Home Disk and increased the Home Disk of the course to be used. The details are as follows.There is no change in the fee of the use course.

• Fee of additional Home Disk is change.
  (It is a charge of 1 TiB unit.)

	Until March 2017		From April 2017
	yearly amount	monthly amount	yearly amount	monthly amount
Academic Organizations	¥ 60,000	¥ 5,000	¥ 36,000	¥ 3,000
Civilian Agencies	¥ 120,000	¥ 10,000	¥ 72,000	¥ 6,000

• The name of the course has changed. Space Home Disks increases.

Shirokane3 until March 2017			SHIROKANE from April 2017
Course Name	Home Disk		Course Name	Home Disk
	Space	Number of files		Space	Number of files
Free course Trial course	1 GiB	1,000	Free course Trial course	100 GiB	1,000
C1 G1	1 TiB	1 M	D1 H1	2 TiB	2 M
C2 G2	1 TiB	1 M	D2 H2	2 TiB	2 M
C3 G3	2 TiB	2 M	D3 H3	3 TiB	3 M
C4 G4	4 TiB	4 M	D4 H4	6 TiB	6 M
C5 G5	8 TiB	8 M	D5 H5	12 TiB	12 M
C6 G6	16 TiB	16 M	D6 H6	24 TiB	24 M
C7 G7	32 TiB	32 M	D7 H7	48 TiB	48 M
C8 G8	64 TiB	64 M	D8 H8	96 TiB	96 M
C9 G9	128 TiB	128 M	D9 H9	192 TiB	192 M

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