How to Use ABCI

ABCI USAGE FEES

In FY2024, ABCI point charges will remain unchanged and Node V/A billing coefficients will be revised.

• FY2024: ABCI Point costs 220 yen (including tax) (same as FY2023)
• Billing coefficient for Compute Node (V): 1.2 (20% price increase)
• Billing coefficient for Compute Node (A): 6.0 (The ratio of billing coefficient for Node A/V is corrected to “1:5” to take into account the performance difference between Node A and V.)

ABCI Service Menu and Usage Fees for ABCI Points (FY2024)New

• The point acquisition unit is 1,000 points (220,000 yen (including tax)).
• Point billing table will be as follows.

Service	Resource type	Resource Overview	Spot and On-Demand	Reserved
Computing Resource	＜Compute Node (V)＞
	rt_F	4GPU, 40 cores, 360GB Memory	1.2 Point/hour	43.2 Point/day (Equivalent to 1.8 Point/hour)
	rt_G.large	4GPU, 20 cores, 240GB Memory	1.08 Point/hour	N/A
	rt_G.small	1GPU, 5 cores, 60GB Memory	0.36 Point/hour
	rt_C.large	20 cores, 120GB Memory	0.72 Point/hour
	rt_C.small	5 cores, 30GB Memory	0.24 Point/hour
	＜Compute Node (A)＞
	rt_AF	8GPU, 72 cores, 480GB Memory	6.0 Point/hour	216 Point/day (Equivalent to 9.0 Points/hour)
	rt_AG.small	1GPU, 9 cores, 60GB Memory	1.0 Point/hour	N/A
	Storages	Group Area (shared disk)	5 Point/TB month (Free of charge for 200GB Home Area)
		ABCI Cloud Storage	0.0001 ポイント/GB day (Usage Base)

Watch out

• Before using ABCI services, you are required to obtain ABCI points by paying the usage fee equivalent to ABCI points.

• The unit for acquiring ABCI Points is 1,000 points. The rate for one ABCI point is subject to revision each fiscal year.
• Additional ABCI Points can be obtained at any time. However, **the number of additional ABCI Points that can be obtained after Oct 1 may be capped based on the number of ABCI Points used by each usage group as of Sep 30 of the relevant fiscal year. **
• The total number of points that one ABCI Group may hold (the total number of ABCI Points obtained minus the number of ABCI Points used, the “ABCI Point Balance”) will not exceed 600,000 points.
• ABCI Points will be reduced according to the amount of computing resources used, and will no longer be available when the balance is depleted.
• Points that are not fully used by Mar 30 5:00pm (Japan Standard Time) of the fiscal year in which the application is submitted will expire and cannot be carried over to the following fiscal year. However, if the ABCI is unavailable for use by Mar 30 5:00pm (Japan Standard Time) due to unavoidable circumstances, such as a failure of the ABCI or a natural disaster not attributable to the user, and the period of unavailability exceeds 20 days, the ABCI point balance obtained for the fiscal year will be carried over to the following fiscal year.
• The usage fee will not be refunded.
• The fee shall be free of charge in the following cases
  • In cases where free use of ABCI is approved, such as the implementation of a proposal planned by the Institute.
  • In other cases where the Institute approves the use of the ABCI free of charge.

<Reference> ABCI USAGE FEES BEFORE FY2023>

• Rates and Benefits before FY2023
  

  • FY2023: 220 yen (including tax)
    • 10% increase.
  • FY2022: 198 yen (including tax)
    • No benefit in FY2022.
  • FY2021: 220 yen (including tax)
    • Benefit 1: 1,000 points can be purchased for 198,000 yen (including tax) only for the first application.
    • Benefit 2: 10% of the number of points earned in FY2021 (actual value) will be returned free of charge if you “apply for continued use” by June.
  • FY2020: 200 yen (excluding tax)
    • Benefit 1: 1,000 points can be purchased for 180,000 yen (excluding tax) only for the first application.
    • Benefit 2: 10% of the number of points earned in FY2020 (actual value) will be returned free of charge if you “apply for continued use” by June.
  • FY2019: 200 yen (excluding tax)
    • No benefit in FY2019.
    • Consumption tax is 8% until Sep 30, 2019 and 10% since Oct 1, 2019.

ABCI Service Menu and Usage Fees for ABCI Points (FY2023) <Reference>

• The point acquisition unit is 1,000 points (220,000 yen (including tax)).
• New “Rack Occupancy Annual Use” service will start in FY2023.
• There will be changes to the service offerings for the resource types provided by the Memory-Intensive Node, in FY2023. See (∗1)(∗2) below.
• Other point billing tables will remain unchanged.

Service	Resource type	Resource Overview	Spot and On-Demand	Reserved
Computing Resource	<Compute Node (V)>
	rt_F	4GPU, 40 cores, 360GB Memory	1.0 Point/hour	36 Points/day (Equivalent to 1.5 Points/hour)
	rt_G.large	4GPU, 20 cores, 240GB Memory	0.9 Point/hour	N/A
	rt_G.small	1GPU, 5 cores, 60GB Memory	0.3 Point/hour
	rt_C.large	20 cores, 120GB Memory	0.6 Point/hour
	rt_C.small	5 cores, 30GB Memory	0.2 Point/hour
	<Memory-Intensive Node>
	rt_M.large	8 cores, 800GB Memory	0.4 Point/hour	Service has been terminated(∗1)
	rt_M.small	4 cores, 400GB Memory	0.2 Point/hour
	rt_M.large2	8 cores, amount of memory undetermined	0.4 Point/hour	Service not available(∗2)
	rt_M.small2	4 cores, amount of memory undetermined	0.2 Point/hour
	<Compute Node (A)>
	rt_AF	8GPU, 72 cores, 480GB Memory	3.0 Points/hour	108 Points/day (Equivalent to 4.5 points/hour)
	rt_AG.small	1GPU, 9 cores, 60GB Memory	0.5 Point/hour	N/A
Storages	Group Area (shared disk)	5 Points/TB month (Free of charge for 200GB Home Area)
	ABCI Cloud Storage	0.0001 Points/GB day (Usage Base)

• (∗1) Services for rt_M.large and rt_M.small have been terminated on Fri, Oct 27, 2023 3:00pm.

• (∗2) The service availability of rt_M.large2 and rt_M.small2 has been reviewed and decided NOT TO BE PROVIDED.

Service Fees for ABCI Rack Occupancy Annual Use (FY2023) <Reference>

Service	Resource Type	Resource Overview	Spent Points	Contract Period
Rack Occupancy	rt_rack.3	3 Racks of Compute Nodes (V) Occupancy (1200TB of storage)	450,000 Points/year	1 year (from the start date of ABCI usage in each fiscal year to the end date of usage)
	rt_rack.4	4 Racks of Compute Nodes (V) Occupancy (1200TB of storage)	600,000 Points/year