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How to become a Condo Investor?

Faculty, Departments, Centers or Colleges who are are interested in investing in the Condo Program should refer to the Pricing Chart for available equipment and costs.

Prospective investors should review available equipment and estimated costs and contact Alex Pacheco, Manager contact Ryan Bradley, Director of Research Computing for next steps.

• The Condo Investment is for a period of 5 years or length of hardware warranty purchased.

• Investors will not be provided with dedicated access to their equipment but are provided with higher priority on their investment. Investments are shared with all Sol users. Condo Investors can in turn utilize all other available Sol nodes at a lower priority.

  The base compute node is the minimum configuration available in the Condo Program.

• All investments must include EDR Infiniband adaptors and cables.

Heterogeneity of the cluster is in the number of cores, memory, storage and accelerators available on the compute nodes and not in the underlying network fabric

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• The minimum condo investment is 1 compute node which may be shared by multiple faculty irrespective of department or college.

  • Partnerships between two or more faculty for a condo investment is permitted but LTS will not initiate such partnerships nor will it mediate the distribution of allocations among the partners. We will create separate allocations for the individual partners.

• Currently, there are no plans for supporting resources either in terms of administration or infrastructure cost sharing that do not meet Sol's base configuration for e.g. clusters without EDR Infiniband or those not part of the shared cluster.

Please contact Research Computing staff for upgrade options.

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Cores that cannot be scheduled i.e. CUDA Cores or x86 cores on a MIC Coprocessors, are not counted in the Annual SU allocation. A Base Compute Node and a Base Compute Node with an add-on Accelerator provide 315,360 SUs annually.

Can I include computing time or equipment purchase in grants?

Budget Request Templates

Please contact the Office of Research and Sponsored Program to check for information on a specific funding agencies policy on computing equipment purchase. If computing equipment can be budgeted, feel free to modify the templates per your requirement and add to your budget justification. In addition, to the Budget Templates, information about Lehigh's Facilities is also available at the above website.

If you need a letter of support or a budgetary quote for computing resources, please contact Ryan Bradley, Manager of Research Computing either directly or through the Research Data Management Committee, if you also need help with creating a Data Management Plan.