Vanderbilt Advance Computing Center for Research & Education (ACCRE) Core

Overview of Services

'The Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education (ACCRE) is built and operated by and for Vanderbilt faculty. Its mission is to allow Vanderbilt researchers to define, benefit from, and explore the “New World” described above and in so doing, to answer questions of great societal importance they would not have addressed otherwise. A comprehensive history of the ACCRE core can be found on the ACCRE Website: http://www.accre.vanderbilt.edu/

ACCRE offers resources in the form of compute services, disk storage and tape services.

Compute and storage services are made up of rental fees, support fees, and bulk capacity plans.

Disk storage services consist of Vdura data storage (backed up) and scratch services (not backed up).

Category Service Subsidized Price to VU Researcher Subsidized VUMC Price Unsubsidized Price Additional Information
Cluster Storage /data $7/TB/mo $7/TB/mo $9.32/TB/mo Backed up, cluster facing storage
Scratch Data Storage /nobackup $5/TB/mo $9.50/TB/mo $14.25/TB/mo Not backed up
Archive/Backup Backup and Archive Options $5/TB/mo $9.50/TB/mo $10.70/TB/mo n/a
CPU Rent CPU Rent Fee $16.50/core/mo $23/core/mo $23.04/core/mo Minimum 2-core for 3-month rental for membership
GPU Rent GPU Rent Fee $186 per Level 1 Card/mo
$372 per Level 2 Card/mo
$287 per Level 1 Card/mo
$574 per Level 2 Card/mo
$291.24 per Level 1 Card/yr
$582.47 per Level 2 Card/yr
Minimum 1 card for 3-month commitment
Support Fees Support Fee (bulk capacity plan required) $107.50/node/mo $143/node/mo $149.25/node/mo Bulk capacity plan required
Software Engineer Hours/ACCREx Software Engineer For Hire Service $60/hr $162/hr $162.34/hr Prices vary year to year

Leadership

Hunter Hagewood, Executive Director
Director of Research Computing Operations and Research IT
hunter.hagewood@vanderbilt.edu

Alan Tackett
Director
Technical Director and Lead Developer
alan.tackett@vanderbilt.edu

L
indsey Fox, Director
Research IT Services, Facilitation, and Outreach
lindsey.fox@vanderbilt.edu


Hours of Operation and Location

Hours Open

Hours Staffed

Location

Open Access 8 am to 5 pm

8 hours

1231 18th Avenue S

Nashville, TN 37232


Links and Resources

  1. https://www.vanderbilt.edu/accre/services-pricing/

Contacts

Name Role Phone Email Location
Patrick Bembry
Core Business Manager
 
(615) 343-2244
 
patrick.bembry@vanderbilt.edu
 
Hill Center
 
Sara Frederick
Program Coordinator
 

 
sara.frederick@vanderbilt.edu
 
Hill Center