HPC Investment
Why Purchase Resources?
Koa is free to use for all students, faculty and staff at any of the campuses in the University of Hawaii system.
While a significant amount of work can be completed using free community resources, some researchers may find that they need more storage or dedicated resources to run longer jobs than the community nodes allow or they find the wait times for community resources to significantly impede their research.
Faculty and staff can purchase or lease compute nodes to power their research and select a long term storage solution for their data.
Purchase or Lease a Node
We offer computational resources that fit the needs of your research. Gain exclusive access to compute nodes that are at your disposal through a condo node purchase or lease nodes for a time period of your choice.
Condo Nodes
Condo node purchases are available until March 27, 2024. All nodes have 25 Gbit ethernet, 100G HDR Infiniband and have a 5-year warranty.
| CPU Systems | |||
| Processor (2x) | Cores | Memory (GB) | Cost |
| AMD EPYC 9754S | 256 | 1536 | $41,530 |
| AMD Epyc 9654 | 192 | 1536 | $28,440 |
| Intel Xeon 6548Y+ | 64 | 512 | $18,390 |
| GPU Systems (Base system) Max 2x GPUs per node | |||
| Processor (2x) | Cores | Memory | Cost |
| AMD Epyc 9334 | 64 | 768 | $21,750 |
| Intel Xeon 6548Y+ | 64 | 512 | $21,410 |
| GPU Type | Cost |
| H100 | $25,000 |
| L40s | $6,300 |
| A30 | $3,950 |
Please contact us with questions: uh-hpc-help@lists.hawaii.edu
Node Leasing
| NODE TYPE | TIME PERIOD | PRICE |
| Community Node | 1 to 12 months | $110 per month per node* |
*subject to indirect cost
Purchasing Process
How to purchase condo nodes and lease nodes:
View our HPC Ordering Process here.
Koa Research Storage Service
Accelerate your research and store your data on the cluster for faster access.
The University of Hawaiʻi (UH) Koa Research Storage Services offers three different storage solutions for researchers. Find which storage solution fits your research storage needs at the link below.
https://datascience.hawaii.edu/koa-research-storage-service/
If you have questions please contact us at uh-hpc-help@lists.hawaii.edu.