CISER Billing FAQ: General Information
- Concerned about the new CISER pricing structure?
- What is driving the new pricing policy?
- When will the new pricing structure go into effect?
- What CISER Services are available at no cost to the user?
Concerned about the new CISER pricing structure?
Faculty are encouraged to share their concerns with their representative to the CISER Faculty Advisory Committee (FAC) and/or the Dean of their college. If your college does not have a representative on the FAC please contact Deputy Provost David Harris directly. All CISER users are also encouraged to share their concerns with CISER Director Bill Block.
GO BACKWhat is driving the new pricing policy?
It is important to note that the new CISER billing model is not being implemented due to declining support by either the Provost or the CISER member colleges. Rather, Provost support for CISER has increased in recent years, as have member college contributions to CISER. For the period FY08 and FY09, member college support for CISER has remained steady (with no increase from FY08 to FY09), due to an effort by CISER to keep costs under control in an era when users are being asked to start paying for premium use of CISER computing. The new CISER billing model gives each college more control over whose CISER supported work gets subsidized. Finally, a number of similar units across campus are undergoing a transition to a billing model for similar reasons.
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July 1, 2008
GO BACKWhat CISER Services are available at no cost to the user?
- Computing and data workshops.
- Data analysis software help desk.
- Social science data archive access and consultations.
- Computing user support.
- Up to $400 per account per year of system process usage on CISERRSCH and/or CRADC.
- Up to 10GB per account per year of disk usage on CISERRSCH and/or CRADC.
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