Last Updated: August 30, 2024
At the end of the warranty period a condo node owner has three options.
Removal: Node owners can request to have the node removed from Koa and placed where they wish to house it for its remaining life. Once nodes have been removed from Koa, they cannot be re-integrated at a later date.
Pay to stay: Node owners can continue to have all the perks of condo node ownership, but a yearly racking free equal to the posted per rack unit fee the ITS data center collects for server co-location (currently $125 a year for each rack unit), will be assessed to the owner. Co-location fees are non-refundable in the event of node failure.
Donation: Node owners can opt-out of paying the yearly racking fee and donate their node to the community. Node owners and users of the private partition will retain maximum 30 day run times and private partition access. However, their private partition submissions will lose the ability to preempt jobs run by users in the “kill” partitions. Choosing this option will also allow the node owner to decide at a later point in time, to pay the racking free in order to restore the priority preemption benefit.
With pay to stay and donation, ITS-CI will still only continue to provide basic troubleshooting and management of the node for free. If the node fails or has hardware issues, it is on the node owner to decide if they wish to repair the node at a cost or decommission and dispose of the node.
For pay to stay, yearly racking fees will be collected in March. Nodes that go off warranty outside of March, will be charged a prorated amount for the first partial year in order to put them on a collection schedule of March of each year. Node owners of multiple-nodes, may work with ITS-CI to create a custom payment schedule.