No-Cost Allocations
Research Computing allocations provide eligible researchers across the university with annual no-cost access to computing and storage resources.
Faculty / Primary Investigator Allocation (s)
Duke Compute Cluster
- Access to the common and scavenger partitions, normal usage is under 60,000 CPU hours per year
- 1TB of dedicated storage, access to a 650TB shared NAS storage for short-term storage (auto purges of files older than 75 days) of data under analysis
Virtual Machines
- 4 CPU cores
- 40 GB RAM
- 200 GB Storage
Protected Network for Research
- 200GB of storage
- PNR Virtual Machines with 4 cores and 8GB RAM
Non-DCC Storage
- In Pilot: Duke Data Attic - 2 TB of Ceph S3 Storage
PhD Student Allocations
Duke Compute Cluster
- Dedicated computational (CPU and GPU) hours and storage for research, seperate from Faculty/PI allocations
Non-DCC Storage
- In Pilot: Duke Data Attic - 500 GB of Ceph S3 Storage
Going Beyond the No-Cost Allocations
Additional compute or storage required beyond these no-cost allocations can be requested and will be charged at the current rates listed here.