SLURM Charges

Billing Rates

Note there may be different versions of a resource type, each having different performance characteristics. For example, a CPU job might end up being run on a Sandy Bridge, Haswell, or SkyLake CPU, which are different-generation processors and have different processing speeds. SLURM is aware of the different versions of a resource and will charge appropriately. At present, the relative performance charges are:

CPU and GPU Billing Rates

Resource Type	Resource Version	SUs Charged Per Core Per Hour

Resource Type	Resource Version	SUs Charged Per Core Per Hour
CPU	Skylake	1
CPU	Cascade Lake	1
CPU	AMD Rome	1
CPU	Icelake Lake	1
VM	Skylake vCPU	1
GPU	P100	1
GPU	V100	1.48
GPU	A100	2.1

Note that the Sandy Bridge and Haswell CPUs are only used in the DLX 2 nodes. Because the DLX 2 nodes are available at no cost to users, their SU charge per core per hour is 0 SUs.

Performance Ratios

The following table shows the relative performance of the various processors
that are part of the LCC system (using Sandy Bridge and P100s as the base performance).

CPU and GPU Performance Ratios

Resource Type	Resource Version	Relative Performance

Resource Type	Resource Version	Relative Performance
CPU	Sandy Bridge	1
CPU	Haswell	1.59
CPU	Skylake	2.91
CPU	Cascade Lake	2.91
CPU	AMD Rome	1.38
CPU	Ice Lake	2.77
VM	Sandy Bridge vCPU	1
VM	Haswell vCPU	1.59
VM	Skylake vCPU	2.91
VM	AMD Rome vCPU	1.38
VM	Icelake vCPU	2.77
GPU	P100	1
GPU	V100	1.48
GPU	A100	2.1