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Investing in HiPerGator Resources

Newly onboarded primary HiPerGator groups are eligible for a free 3-month trial allocation

HiPerGator (and HiPerGator-RV) use is not free. It requires investing in respective computational and storage resources. The "HiPerGator Advantage" is that it's a large system where unused resources can be temporarily borrowed via the "burst QOS" by other users, which, most of the time, provides investors and their sponsored users with several times the amount of resources they invested in that are allocated to the investment QOS.

Investment Types

  • Hardware Purchase for HiPerGator and HiPerGator-RV: Purchased resources are allocated for the duration of a fixed 5-year term (matching the industry standard hardware lifecycle) and are available for use 24/7/365 for 5 years outside of planned and announced downtime for maintenance or unexpected downtime during outages. No IDC (Indirect Cost) charge is incurred.
  • Service Purchase for HiPerGator and HiPerGator-RV: Purchased resources are allocated for the duration selected at the time of the form submission. Allocated resources are available for use 24/7 for the duration of the allocation outside of planned and announced downtime for maintenance or unexpected downtime during outages. For most grant types IDC (Indirect Cost) is added during billing for this investment type. This purchase type also includes resources for auxiliary services such as web application hosting (PUBAPPS).
  • Consulting Purchase. This is a purchase of a number of consulting hours for RSE - Research Software Engineering or RC Professional Consulting services. The hours must be consumed by the consulting projects within a 5-year term.

Investment Request Forms

University of Florida Investors

Use the respective form below to submit an investment request

HiPerGator investment request forms

HiPerGator-RV investment request forms

Consulting service request form

After a form is submitted the investor and the fiscal (and grant if applicable) specialist will receive a confirmation email with a summary of the order and the description of the subsequent steps.

Allocation and Billing

  • Once a request form submission is received resources will be automatically allocated to the specified group (HPG) or team (HPG-RV) on the respective system. The investor and the fiscal specialist will receive an email with a confirmation of the allocation.
  • After the resources are allocated there is a 5-business day (calendar week) change hold period outside of holiday reduced service periods during which the investor can provide an update for the order for an easily implemented change.
  • At the end of the change hold period the order will be automatically forwarded to the UFIT Business Center Billing Team. A BCBT Ticket will be automatically created. The fiscal specialist and the investment specified in the order will receive communications from the BCBT with the information necessary to complete the billing process. UF Investors are expected to pay with a UF ChartField account.

External organizations

Since external organizations cannot pay with a UF ChartField account they must follow the procedure below.

Please contact UFIT Research Computing at it-rc-billing@rc.ufl.edu to request a quote.

  • Request a quote
  • Follow the steps listed on the quote to achieve the Formal Acceptance of the quote with the UFIT Business Center Billing Team (BCBT).
  • Once the quote is formally accepted, the BCBT will notify UFIT Research Computing.
  • Once notified by the BCBT, RC will allocate the resources on HPG or HPG-RV.
  • The investor will follow the provided instructions to complete the billing steps and pay for the purchase resources or services with a check or EFT.

Main RC Website

This information and more is also available on the main RC website.

Feel free to contact us if you have any questions.