Pricing

NeSI has rich experience and advanced capabilities in high performance computing and data science engineering focused on powering New Zealand's science.

Service Subscriptions

NeSI has a range of options for accessing its services and building your research capabilities. Subscribing to NeSI's services provides you with:

• Managed entitlements on NeSI's HPC platform for your research projects and programmes, including access to:

  • high-capacity CPUs, GPUs and high memory nodes

  • interactive computing via Jupyter Notebooks, containers, and virtual lab environments

  • an extensive pre-built software library

  • data storage for compute, from the highest performance storage on NeSI's HPC platform or via NeSI's long-term storage Nearline Service

• Personalised support to assist your researchers across the breadth of their NeSI experience, from applying for projects/allocations, to getting their projects running on the platform, to general troubleshooting or experimenting with new tools or techniques.

• Targeted support for building researchers' computational skills and capabilities. NeSI's Consultancy Service provides dedicated scientific and HPC-focused computational and data science support to research projects across a range of domains.

• Advice and partnership on advanced research computing strategies and collaboration on shared goals.

High Performance Computing

The following pricing table covers NeSI's core service offerings:

Last updated July 2023 - prices are subject to change.

*Mahuika Broadwell nodes are the original Mahuika CPUs and are currently the default CPU for Mahuika users.
**Mahuika Milan cores are the newest CPU nodes in Mahuika (part of what has been called the Mahuika Extension 2021/2022). To use these you need to actively select the Milan partition.

Research Developer Cloud

Billable services in the Research Developer Cloud include:

• Virtual Machines (VMs)
• General Purpose Graphical Processing Units (GPUs)
• Storage

Last updated September 2024 - prices are subject to change.

Virtual Machines (VMs)

Regular VMs

• The flavours available by default are the balanced VMs with 1 CPU to 2GB RAM ratio.
• They are named balanced1.1cpu2ram and increment up to balanced1.32cpu64ram.
• The price scales linearly with the number of cores in the VMs.

High Memory & Development VMs

The Research Developer Cloud also offers high memory flavours (memory1) and flavours designed for quick development and test purposes (devtest1): 

• high memory flavours having 1 to 4 ratio of CPU per GB of RAM
• development focused flavours with 1 to 1 ratio

Please contact us if you would like to access these specialised compute flavours.

General Purpose GPUs

General Purpose GPUs are currently accessible as a whole node or half a node of A40 GPUs. The GPU flavour won’t be visible by default on your project.

We will be working on making vGPU access available in smaller portions instead of the whole node. Please contact us if you would like to access them.

Storage

If you have questions or would like to learn more about a Subscription to any of the NeSI services outlined above, get in touch.