VT EGI Pay-for-Use Technical Details
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The following table provides an overview of the technical details of the resource and technology providers for the PoC.
Further below are instructions for adding pricing into the accounting mechanisms.
Resource Providers, Services and Prices
NGI/RC | GOCDB Name | Contact | Service Type | Services and Resources | Preferred Payment Direct/Indirect | Grid Compute Price [HEPSPEC06/hr] |
Cloud Compute Price [wallclock/hr] |
Storage Price [€/GB/Month] |
VAT [%] |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Albert Einstein Center, Univ. of Bern | UNIBE-LHEP | Sigve Haug | Batch via CENTOS 5/6 ARC CE |
|
Both | €0.03/hr | N/A |
No long-tem storage offered. Disk up to 20 TB for CPU usage period plus to weeks for free. |
8% |
NGI_BG | BG01-IPP; BG03-NGCC | Todor Gurov Emanouil Atanassov |
Batch & Grid: EMI-2/EMI-3 |
|
Both |
|
N/A | €0.04/GB/month (+VAT) via dCache. Maximal capacity 30TB. | 20% |
CESGA-IBERGRID | CESGA | Alvaro Simon Ivan Diaz |
Batch + Cloud |
|
Direct |
€0.02/core/HEPSPEC06 hour |
€0.04/core+2GB RAM/hour (+VAT) Example:
|
€0.055/GB/month (+VAT) | 21% |
IFCA-IBERGRID | IFCA-LCG2 | Jesus Marco | Batch (SLURM, SGE) + Cloud |
|
Both, Direct preferred |
|
€0.03 | Minimal storage free, requests up to 100 TB high performance storage possible | 21% |
Institute of Informatics of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (II SAS) | IISAS-FedCloud |
Ladislav Hluchý |
Cloud (Openstack) |
|
Both | N/A | €0.06/core/h +VAT | TBD | 20% |
Latvian Grid | IMCSUL | Kaspars Krampis | Cloud: OpenStack, GRID: ARC + SLURM |
|
TBC | €0.07/core/hr + VAT | N/A | TBD | 21% |
MASTER-UP Srl | UNI-PERUGIA |
Alessandro Costantini |
EMI1/2, CEs, WNs, SE |
|
Direct | €0.05 | N/A | €0.01/GB per month | 22% |
NGI_GRNET | All HG-* | Kostas Koumantaros | Cloud and Grid |
|
TBC | €0.05/hr + VAT | €0.05 + VAT | TBD | 23% |
NGI-IT |
INFN-BARI PRISMA-INFN-BARI (cloud) INFN-XX |
Vincenzo Spinoso | EMI, OpenStack |
|
TBD | €0.07/hr + VAT | €0.05 + VAT | €0.02 + VAT | 22% |
100 Percent IT | 100IT | David Blundell | Cloud (Openstack) |
|
Both | N/A | €0.07 + VAT | TBD | 20% |
PL-Grid | CYFRONET-LCG2 | Mariusz Sterzel | Cloud + Batch via Cream / EMI |
|
Both | €0.03 + VAT | €0.04 + VAT | TBD | 23% |
TUBITAK ULAKBIM | TR-10-ULAKBIM | Onur Temizsoylu Feyza Eryol |
Cloud + Batch |
|
Both | €0.15/hour 8 core 24 GB instance | TBC | TBD | 18% |
UIIP NASB | BY-UIIP | Serge Salamanka | Cloud + Batch |
|
Indirect | $0.077/hr (TBD) 1 Core | N/A | TBD | 20% |
Fraunhofer SCAI | SCAI | Horst Schwichtenberg | Cloud (Openstack) + Grid (gLite) |
Cloud:
Grid:
|
TBC | €0.02 | TBC | TBD | 19% |
CSC, IT Center for Science, Ltd. | CSC-cloud | Janne Ignatius, Luís Alves | Cloud (Openstack) |
|
Direct | N/A | TBC Soon | TBD | 24% |
Price in Accounting
Overview
To test the mechanism for turning your accounting into a monetary charge charging rate needs to be defined. During the pilot this will be one number for your site in euros/HS06 hour. The number does not have to be real but obviously a ballpark figure would be good as it would give more realistic pilot reports.
To define the charging rate the plan is to use a new feature of GOCDB which is known as ‘<a href="https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/GOCDB/Release4/Development/ExtensibilityMechanism">Key-Value Pair Property Bag Extensiblity Mechanism</a>’. This allows the definition of arbitrary key-value pairs for a site or any service. If a community agrees a naming scheme for the keys and semantics for the values then they have a flexible and low overhead method of adding more information about anything defined in GOCDB. For anyone interested about more details this is documented <a href="https://wiki.egi.eu/wiki/GOCDB/Release4/Development/ExtensibilityMechanism">here</a>.
Instructions
- If you do not have access rights to change features of your site please ask the site manager or a site admin to do it for you.
- Go to GOCDB <a href="https://goc.egi.eu">https://goc.egi.eu/</a>
- Navigate to your site. (My Sites) at the top of the left hand sidebar.
- Just above the list of Services you should see a new box called 'Site Extension Properties'
- At the bottom of this box there is a big green plus titled 'Add Properties' – click on it
- This should show a window with two fields 'Property Name' and 'Property Value'
- For 'Property Name' insert P4U_Pilot_Grid_CPU
- For 'Property Value' insert a real number which will be interpreted as euros per HEPSPEC06 Hour.
- Click the button 'Add Site Property'
- If you go back to the site view you will see P4U_Pilot_Grid_CPU listed. You can edit or delete it.
- Then add other properties from the table below as appropriate for your site.
Once you have done this we will query GOCDB to pull the values for the pilot sites and the accounting portal will join them with usage data to produce a charging report.