Important Note

We are not familiar with the details of the data that would be stored and it is your responsibility to determine the suitability or our environment and infrastructure for your needs, as it would be if you were to use Amazon, Google, etc.  We provide secure storage of the data and secure transfer of it to an authorized user and/or device.  Once the data is on the user's resource, e.g. laptop, workstation, USB key, etc., it's security is the responsibility of the user and/or their local IT support team.


CRBS IT Service Features:

  • Setup fee includes:

    • setup of VM, primary data storage and backups for both

    • working with users to make sure they are able to use the new system.

  • Monthly fee includes:

    • Creating new users
    • Deleting users
    • Password changes
    • Access restrictions and modifications

    • Resolution of any future technical issues related to accessing the VM or the data to which it provides access.

    • Hardware and software maintenance

    • User management

    • General security notices

  • Additional data protection through use of a virtual machine, separate from the data storage server, to restrict electronic access to the data.

  • Data storage in a server room with dedicated power, cooling and network, reducing downtime.

  • Option to start with a primary copy only and add backup copy later for an additional monthly fee.

Example:

  • For a basic Linux-based Samba, FTP or NFS file server, or a Microsoft Windows VM:

    • 2 hours of consulting services at $149.00/hr to discuss security, authorization/authentication, networking, etc.

    • 10 hours of setup at $128.00/hr, covering

      • setup of a Linux  or Windows VM with 100GB local storage, 4GB RAM
      • setup of 1TB external NFS mounted primary storage
      • setup of backup of primary storage to a server located elsewhere on campus

  • Initial setup costs = $298.00 + $1280.00 = $1,578.00

  • Monthly fees, $498.00/month

    • $291.00/mo. for the VM, including nightly snapshots

    • $207.00/mo. for both a primary and backup copy of up to 1TB external data


Additional Fees

Additional configuration, software installation, etc., including but not limited to implementation of custom access controls may incur additional fees based on our hourly rate of $91.00/hr.  

Any required software licenses are your responsibility and are not included in any of our fees.


Technical Support and Consulting

  • Virtualization
    • migration of applications to a virtualized compute environment
    • equipment specification for hosting VMs in your own environment
  • Network design, implementation and troubleshooting
    Large data storage (100+ terabytes)
    • Ubuntu ZFS or CentOS ZFS
    • Implementation, configuration and performance issues
    • Hardware specification
  • 3rd party software integration
    • data capture (Zeiss, Gatan, etc)
    • data analysis (Matlab, Amira, iMOD, etc.)
    • website applications (Apache, Tomcat, etc.)
  • Databases
    • Postgres
    • MySQL
    • MariaDB
  • Automation
    • Scalable, repeatable, secure server provisioning via Ubuntu, foreman and puppet
    • Scripting (bash, perl, etc.)
  • High Performance Computing (HPC)
    • hardware specification
    • implementation, configuration (ROCKS, Puppet, SGE, etc.)
    • NOT parallelization of existing code

Data Storage and Application Hosting Support

  • Routine Support
    • Troubleshooting of existing systems
    • User management
    • Patch management
    • Rate (UCSD Users) 128.00 per hour
    • Rate (Non-UCSD Users) 185.60 per hour

Migration and Startup Consultation Services

  • Hourly Consultation
    • Information gathering for strategic implementation plan
    • General migration issue resolution
    • Straight forward mapping of data
    • Rate (UCSD Users) 149.00 per hour
    • Rate (Non-UCSD Users) 216.05 per hour

Architecture and Design assistance

  • New design and implementation assistance
    • Rate (UCSD Users) 171.00 per hour
    • Rate (Non-UCSD Users) 247.95 per hour


 

Virtual Machine Hosting

  • Application hosting
    • websites
      • "puppetized" apache (optional)
      • other applications can be self-managed
    • webapp
      • "puppetized" tomcat (optional)
      • other webapp engines (e.g.JBoss) can be self-managed
    • database hosting
      • "puppetized" mysql and/or postgres
      • other database engines (e.g. hsql) can be self-managed
  • Provisioning Options
    • 4GB memory, 2 CPU, with 100GB disk
      Rate (UCSD Users) 291.00
      Rate (Non-UCSD Users) 421.95
    • Additional NFS mounted data storage, single copy or replicated, is available by the TB at additional cost
 

Basic Storage

Backup Storage

  • Non-replicated storage for making a single backup copy of data.
    Rate (UCSD Users) 103.00 per TB per month
    Rate (Non-UCSD Users) 149.35 per TB per month

Replicated Data Storage

  • primary copy with network availability, plus a limited access backup copy.
    Rate (UCSD Users) 207.00 per TB per month
    Rate (Non-UCSD Users) 300.15 per TB per month

Image Data Sharing  - For NIH Data Management https://sharing.nih.gov/data-management-and-sharing-policy

Data will be stored and shared in the Cell Image Library http://www.cellimagelibrary.org/


If you are here preparing a budget keep in mind that every dataset is a bit different, some take more time to prepare than others but a good indicator of cost is the expected size of the dataset. 
A dataset that is only a few MB may take an hour to format and process where as a dataset that is tens of TB may take days in formatting and weeks of processing. If data is presented to us 
in a format that is ready to ingest we will waive the import and processing fees but may charge fees for support if support is required.
You should be liberal in your estimations to not over run your budgeted amount. 

Image Data Storage

  • Storage of microscopy imaging data in Cell Image Library http://www.cellimagelibrary.org/  
    Rate (UCSD Users) 99.00 per TB one time fee
    Rate (Non-UCSD Users)  143.55 per TB one time fee
    Minimum charge 1TB

Image Data Import

  • This varies on the size and type of dataset,
    it's computed by how much time our technicians spend to process and format the data for ingest into the database
    or the amount of time our technicians spend on support.
    Rate (UCSD Users) 126.00 per hour 
    Rate (Non-UCSD Users)  182.70 per hour
    Minimum Charge 1 hour

Image Data Processing

  • This varies on the size and type of dataset,
    it's computed by the number of CPU/GPU hours it takes to format the dataset
    Rate (UCSD Users) 3.00 per hour
    Rate (Non-UCSD Users)  4.35 per hour
    Minimum Charge 1 hour

Contact Nora Makhsudova at nmakhsudova@ucsd.edu
 

Information on the CRBS SOM support team goes here. (Under construction.)

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