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In some cases, a researcher just needs a short period of dedicated access to hardware on Koa or is unable to spend a large amount of funds at once. In this case, a service model of leasing computational resources are available to researchers.

Warningnote

Due to the limited supply of GPUs in Koa, we do not currently lease GPU nodes

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To lease computational resources, please fill out the order form here:

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Storage Resources

Koa Research Storage Service

Accelerate your research and store your data on the cluster for faster access.

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Note

Please note: sensitive/restricted data cannot be stored in our storage resources.

Contact uh-hpc-help@lists.hawaii.edu  for sensitive/restricted data storage solutions. See the UH Institutional Data Governance Data Classification Levels for more info.

Lab Storage (Free)

This option is free to each lab at UH with members that utilize Koa. We allow a lab to requires a single 500GB storage location for free. To get started with requesting a lab storage, please fill out the following form and ITS-CI will be in contact.

Lab Storage request form

KoaStore (Service)

When a lab exceeds what storage is freely available on Koa, they will want to consider purchasing additional storage on Koa for the lab. The KoaStore storage option can be dialed up and down based on a labs need.

Storage Amount

Files Allowed

Access control

Cost per year

1 TB

1,048,576

Koa Account + Linux Poisx Group

$50

https://datascience.hawaii.edu/koa-research-storage-service/

KoaCloud (Service)

For labs that have storage needs that google drive is no longer able to fulfill or just a need to allow public links for downloads or even an anonymous/password protected upload page for research data, KoaCloud may meet your requirements. Koacloud utilizes the Nextcloud software, which provide a self hosted product similar to Dropbox.

Storage Amount

Access Control

Cost Per year

1 TB

UH Credentials + Nextcloud Teams

$55

For labs that are interested in Koacloud, they may visit the following link to learn how to order this service.

https://datascience.hawaii.edu/koa-research-storage-service/

If you feel you need to further discuss your use case or need to try before your buy, please do not hesitate to contact ITS-CI: itsci@hawaii.edu

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