General Software Information
Here you can find information on using Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) software, on our industrial program and our charging policies.
Forms
Request for Software Form - This form is used to request that new software be
acquired for use at the Ohio Supercomputer Center. (This document is available as a text file or as
an Adobe PDF file.)
The following table contains the Academic Agreement forms for using some third-party software. These documents apply to
more than one platform or to no particular platform.
| Software |
ASCII Text Form (TXT) |
PostScript (PS) |
Adobe Acrobat (PDF) |
| Abaqus |
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| Amber |
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| ANSYS |
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| CERF |
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| CNS |
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| CSD |
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| Flow3d |
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| Fluent/Fidap |
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| Gaussian non-OSC non-OSU binary |
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| Gaussian OSC or OSU binary Springfield |
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| Gaussian OSC or OSU binary Columbus |
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| Hyperworks |
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| LSTC |
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| MATLAB |
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| Partek Pro |
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| Turbomole |
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These files are provided for your convenience in completing the process
necessary to use any of this software. You should move the form to your
local computer, print it, and complete it. We cannot accept an
electronic form via email or file transfer, because we must have a
signed form on record. Send your completed form to the address listed
on the form.
The forms are also available in printed form from your site consultant or
from the Ohio Supercomputer Center.
Charging
The following text describes the charging algorithms for academic use on the Glenn Cluster, the BALE Cluster, the IA32 Cluster, and the IA64 Cluster.
Glenn Cluster
Charging for Academic Use
Supercomputer resources on The Cluster are charged in terms of Resource Units, a common measure of the use of CPU and file storage across all platforms.
The charging formula for RUs consumed by a process is:
RU = 0.1 × Tt
where RU is the charge in Resource Units for the process being considered and Tt is the total CPU time in hours for all CPUs
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The BALE Cluster
Charging for Academic Use
Supercomputer resources on The Cluster are charged in terms of Resource Units, a common measure of the use of CPU and file storage across all platforms.
The charging formula for RUs consumed by a process is:
RU = 0.1 × Tt
where RU is the charge in Resource Units for the process being considered and Tt is the total CPU time in hours for all CPUs |
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The IA32 Cluster
Charging for Academic Use
Supercomputer resources on The Cluster are charged in terms of Resource Units, a common measure of the use of CPU and file storage across all platforms.
The charging formula for RUs consumed by a process is:
RU = 0.1 × Tt
where RU is the charge in Resource Units for the process being
considered and Tt is the total CPU time in hours for all CPUs |
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The IA64 Cluster
Charging for Academic Use
Supercomputer resources on the IA64 are charged in terms of Resource Units, a common
measure of the use of CPU and file storage across all platforms.
The charging formula for RUs consumed by a process is:
RU = 0.1 × Tt
where RU is the charge in Resource Units for the process being
considered and Tt is the total CPU time in hours for all CPUs
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File Storage
Charging for Academic Use
NOTE: At this time, there is no charge for file storage.
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Statewide Software Library
The Ohio Supercomputer Center manages a program that offers
state-of-the art software installed at the user's home site. Originally
this program was titled "Statewide Software Library." That is subsumed
by the later program: Statewide Software Distribution.
Industrial Program
The Ohio Supercomputer Center serves a number of commercial clients
through the Industrial Program. For further information, please contact
oschelp@osc.edu.
Industrial Program Charging
The Intel 32-Bit Cluster
The formula below concerns a client with a billing address in Ohio. For any other client, there is a 25% surcharge on the charge for computing time.
There is a minimum administrative charge of $25 a month. This is applied at the project level, not the userid level.
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EXHIBIT A
Charges for Commercial Use of The Intel 32-Bit Cluster
June 1, 2004
Commercial clients using the Intel 64-bit Cluster accrue processing charges and file-storage charges.
The processing charge is based on total time. The instate charging formula for processing is:
C = $1.00 X Tc
where 1 is the base rate in dollars per hour for processing, C is the charge in dollars for the process being
considered, and Tc is the total CPU time, in hours, for all CPUs
The daily charges for primary (disk) and secondary (tape or migrated) file storage are:
| Storage Type |
per Gigabyte |
| Primary (disk) |
$0.02 |
| Secondary (tape) |
$0.00 |
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The Intel 64-Bit Cluster
The
formula below concerns a client with a billing address in Ohio. For any
other client, there is a 25% surcharge on the charge for computing
time.
There
is a minimum administrative charge of $25 a month. This is applied at
the project level, not the userid level.
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EXHIBIT A
Charges for Commercial Use of The Intel 64-Bit
Cluster
November 1, 2001
Commercial clients using The Cluster accrue processing
charges and file-storage charges.
The processing charge is based on total time. The
instate charging formula for processing is:
C = $1.00 X Tc
where 1 is the base rate in dollars per hour for
processing, C is the charge in dollars for the process being
considered, and Tc is the total CPU time, in hours, for all CPUs
The daily charges for primary (disk) and secondary
(tape or migrated) file storage are:
| Storage Type |
per Gigabyte |
| Primary (disk) |
$0.02 |
| Secondary (tape) |
$0.00 |
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File Storage
The daily charges for primary (disk) and secondary (tape or migrated) file storage are:
| Storage Type |
per Gigabyte |
| Primary (disk) |
$0.02 |
| Secondary (tape) |
$0.00 |
Software
The system software on each platform is a variant of UNIX System V. Software that is part of the suite of software supplied by the platform
vendor is freely available to commerical clients.
Other software installed is in two general categories:
- Not available to commercial clients. An example of this is AVS.
- Available by special arrangement with the vendor. An example of this is ABAQUS or ANSYS.
The software listed in the table below is available to commercial clients for a royalty charge.
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EXHIBIT B
OSC Royalty Rates effective June 1, 2004
Royalty charges are subject to an additional surcharge. At this time
there is no software available on a royalty basis to all OSC clients.
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Base Royalty
Rate
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Effective
Royalty
Rate
per Hour
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$$$
per Hr
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$$$$
per Min
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$$$$
per Sec
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1. An overbar indicates a repeating decimal.
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Contract
There are two PDF documents:
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