Billing, cost allocation and reports
You may download your monthly bill anytime under the "Billing" tab on your account page.
This article covers how OAsis HPC charges. There are three components, and we will discuss them one by one.
- Monthly storage charge
- Resource usage charge
- Fixed additional charge
Storage
We charge storage every month by the maximum reserved space in gigabytes. All three types of file sets will be counted.
You may check the current reserved space and actual consumption anytime on the account page under "Usage: Storage".
The above report aggregated status among your entire account hierarchy. You may click an individual file set to inspect the breakdown status on the following screen:
Depending on individual contracts, discounts, free-of-charge credit, and tiered pricing may apply.
Resource usage
Similar to the quotas mechanism we discussed, our resource charge consists of 6 meters. Go to the account page and click "Usage: Job"; you should see the following page displaying usages for each sub-account.
You may click an individual account name to break down users' usage further.
Besides using the web portal, you may also check the current usage with the CLI client. For example, to check output the above chart in the console in JSON format:
$ hc charges -a appcara -o json 15:39:58
# {
# "account": "appcara",
# "charges": {
# "shared_csu": 0.0,
# "oneasia_csu": 14.866667,
# "oneasia_gsu": 0.7766,
# "dedicated_csu": 0.0,
# "shared_gsu": 0.0,
# "dedicated_gsu": 0.0
# },
# "key_mapping": {
# "oneasia_gsu": "GPU charge (Oneasia)",
# "oneasia_csu": "CPU/Mem charge (Oneasia)",
# "dedicated_gsu": "GPU charge (Dedicated)",
# "dedicated_csu": "CPU/Mem charge (Dedicated)",
# "shared_csu": "CPU/Mem charge (Shared)",
# "shared_gsu": "GPU charge (Shared)"
# }
# }
Depending on individual contracts, discounts, free-of-charge credit, and tiered pricing may apply.
Additional charge
Depending on individual contracts, additional charges may appear on your bill. It can be a proportional discount or a fixed amount for support and maintenance.