SDSC Cloud
SDSC Cloud Storage & Compute is the perfect choice for researchers with fixed budgets.
The SDSC Research Data Services (RDS) team administers one of the first large-scale academic deployments of cloud storage in the world. UC San Diego campus users, members of the UC community, and UC affiliates are eligible to join the hundreds of users who already benefit from the 3 petabytes of raw space, which is organized into object-based cloud storage by OpenStack’s Swift platform.
SDSC Cloud Storage is the perfect storage choice for researchers with fixed budgets because unlike other cloud providers, SDSC features a simplified recharge plan that eliminates secondary fees such as bandwidth costs, charges assessed per request, and regional migration fees.
In addition to storage, SDSC Cloud now includes compute options. Users can spin up instances on demand.
Note: SDSC offers a separate cloud storage system for data that needs to meet PHI/PII or HIPAA compliance. Explore Sherlock Secure Cloud for secure solutions.
SDSC Cloud Advantages
Collaboration
Effortlessly share cloud data with colleagues or the public.
Redundacy
With three copies of each file distributed across multiple internal racks, rest assured that your data is reasonably safe from the perils of normal hardware exhaustion.
Technical Support
Communicate directly with SDSC Cloud Storage engineers, who enjoy using their extensive experience to assist you.
Compute Options
Users can spin up instances on demand.
Rates
- Recharge rates are subject to change with approval from the UC San Diego Recharge Rate Committee.
- Indirect Costs (IDC) are exempt for UC San Diego users of SDSC Cloud, effective October 10, 2017.
- When developing budgets for new research proposals, if the eligible cloud computing services are associated with the extramurally funded research, please include these costs in the modifications made to calculate the Modified Total Direct Costs (MTDC) so that IDC costs are not added to the proposed budget. Read more about MTDC.
- Please see Cloud Services: Exemption from Indirect Costs for more details.
- Cloud compute is billed by hours of use of each instance. SDSC Cloud Compute On-Demand pricing is $0.0314/vCPU/hour and $0.0007/GB of memory/hour. More powerful instances or instances with increased storage cost more to run.
