These are the Sax Institute’s costs for the setup of the project environment within SURE, correct as of October 2017 and subject to change. The components of this setup include:

  • Assigning resources for virtual machines to conduct the analysis, including access to software
  • Preparation of data storage area specific to this research group
  • User training
  • Archiving of code and data (optional)

Up-front costs

Item Price (ex GST)
Project setup $636.75
User training (per user) $127.00

Ongoing costs

These are the ongoing costs for any project, per 3 months of resources

Item Price per 3 months (ex GST)
Project annual operations $318.38
Virtual machine – ‘supervisor’ $318.38
Virtual machine – ‘standard’ $636.75
Virtual machine – ‘power’ $1,273.50
Per user that shares a virtual machine $151.50

In general we suggest that the standard level machine will be sufficient for most research purposes using either the PIA or DOMINO datasets. If needed, the machine can be upgraded to meet the researcher’s requirements. The breakdown of these machines are:

Virtual machine level

RAM

CPU cores

Working and temporary
file storage

Supervisor

 4GB

 

 1

 

 Nil

 

Standard

 8GB

 

 2

 

 250GB

 

Power

 16GB

 

 2

 

 500GB

 

Archiving option

The Sax Institute also offers the option to archive and storage the contents of the researcher’s SURE project for up to 10 years. The current fee is $500 for 10 years of archiving.