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Charge-backs

Listed below are charge-back rates for various resources provided by BMI. For costs of licensed software packages, see our software page.

Software Development / Computational Support

Description Charge-back
Design, development, configuration and support of custom software applications and web sites; any other computational support such as assistance with cluster computing Cost of labor and other expenses incurred.  As we are partners on collaborative projects, labor is charged as percent effort, regardless of the size or duration of the project.

Storage

Item Description Charge-back Frequency
RDS - Division/Group Default 100GB quota Free  
RDS - Additional Storage w/ Backup 10GB quota increase $2 Annual

Web servers/sites and collaboration tools

Item Description Charge-back Frequency
Apache - DMZ or Internal - Linux One virtual server w/ 10GB quota $10 Annual
IIS - Internal or DMZ - Basic One virtual server w/ 10GB quota

$100 for main web application
$50 for each additional web application

Annual
IIS - Internal or DMZ - Extended One virtual server w/ quota > 10GB Contact us  
SharePoint - Basic Collaboration

One SharePoint Online site collection

Up to 10 GB storage

Basic collaboration features and site permission structures

Limited support for external (non-CCHMC) users

Standard domain name (e.g., cchmc.sharepoint.com/sites/mysite)

$280 for 4 hours of BMI application specialist support Annual
SharePoint - Complex Collaboration

One SharePoint site collection hosted on the BMI research network

Support for complex permission structures

Large-scale support for external (non-CCHMC) users

Support for custom domain names

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Squarespace

One public web site hosted on the Squarespace platform

Site setup facilitated through BMI and CCHMC Marketing & Communications

Support for custom domain names

Approx $250 for site hosting and domain name

$280 for 4 hours of BMI application specialist support

Additional one-time BMI support costs may apply for more complex site implementations

Annual

Databases

Item Description Charge-back Frequency
MySQL - Basic One database w/ 10GB quota Free  
MySQL - Extended One database instance w/ quota > 10GB Contact Us  
SQL Server - Basic One database  w/ 10GB quota $100 Annual
SQL Server - Instance One database instance w/ 100GB quota $1000 Annual
Oracle - Basic One database  w/ 10GB quota $200 Annual
Oracle - Instance One database instance w/ 100GB quota $2000 Annual

Charges for additional storage are $0.20/GB/year.

Virtual machines

Item Description Charge-back Frequency
Linux - Basic 1GB RAM, 1 CPU, 10GB disk, Linux CentOS $100 Annual
Windows Client - Basic 1GB RAM, 1 CPU, 10GB disk, Windows 7 $100 Annual
Windows Server Basic 2GB RAM, 1 CPU, 30GB disk, Windows Server $500 Annual
VM Extended   Contact us  

Cluster usage

Item Description Charge-back Frequency
Cluster - Basic

10000 hours of walltime is free per quarter per user.
Additional usage will be charged at 1cent / hour

Free  
Cluster - Extended   Contact us