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If your firm or organization has a paid contract with ACENET for compute time on [[Siku]], then this page explains how your computing is measured
and tracked. Submitting and troubleshooting jobs is discussed [https://docs.alliancecan.ca/wiki/Running_jobs elsewhere].
= Monthly statements =
The principal investigator for your organization should receive an automated email on the first day of every month, summarizing the last twelve months' usage on Siku.
It will look something like this:
Here is a report on your firm's recent usage on Siku.
The valid users associated with your account today are:
aturing, ghopper
Your quarterly usage cap is currently 2000 billing hours.
You can adjust this cap at any time by emailing support@ace-net.ca.
Billing hours used, by month (most recent first):
Mar 2023 271.48
Feb 2023 292.18
Jan 2023 217.01
Dec 2022 910.99
Nov 2022 1150.67
Oct 2022 883.90
Sep 2022 588.38
Aug 2022 854.17
Jul 2022 12.58
Jun 2022 0.00
May 2022 0.00
Apr 2022 0.00
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TOTAL 5181.36
Billing hours used in the above months, by user:
aturing 4619.63
ghopper 561.73
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TOTAL 5181.36
Billing hours used in most recent month (March 2023), by user:
aturing 21.79
ghopper 250.05
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TOTAL 271.84
Billing hours used in most recent month (March 2023), by comment:
(none) 271.84
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TOTAL 271.84
Best regards,
An ACENET robot
This is, we hope, self-explanatory except perhaps for the last table.
The "Billing hours used ... by comment" will be uninformative in most cases, but if you add comments to each of your jobs, like so:
#SBATCH --comment=ALPHA_beta
...then the final table will break out your usage by the comment.
A contract research firm, for example, might use a unique comment string for each of its clients,
so that the usage on behalf of each client can be easily read from the table.
= The gory details =
== Terminology ==