Investment Program

Intent

The investment program is for researchers or projects who want dedicated resources from ARC over some period of time:

• For long-term (1-5 year) project needs

• Reserved compute hardware via dedicated partition (with preemptable overlay)

• Expansion of Project or Work via quota increase

• Requestable through the IT Service Catalog > Software & Computing Devices > ARC High Performance Computing:

If you are less interested in dedicated hardware and just want to use more resources than ARC provides for free – for example, in bursts before conference deadlines – you might instead consider the Cost Center.

Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)

An investment Memoradum Of Understanding (MOU) is available to formalize the agreement. For example investment MOUs, see below:

• Compute

• Storage

To Invest

If you have interest in learning more about the Investment Computing Program, please submit a consultation request. ARC can provide a brief presentation on the Investment Computing program at department meetings or to research teams if desired.