Supercomputer Private Nodes
Research Computing supports managing faculty-purchased vendor hardware within the Sol supercomputer. This includes supplying rack space, power, cooling, and networking. Faculty can purchase pre-approved compute node profiles to match their CPU, memory, and GPU needs. These nodes are created in a privately-accessible partition that provides prioritized access to the faculty member and supporting group.
| Compute Node Type | Processor | Cores | RAM | GPU | Price (as of 09/23/25) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Standard Compute | AMD EPYC | 128 | 512GB | N/A | $22,444.43 |
| High Memory | AMD EPYC | 128 | 2048GB | N/A | $43,603.76 |
| GPU Option 1 | Intel Xeon Gold | 48 | 512GB | 48GB L40S × 4 | $39,920.75 |
| GPU Option 2 | Intel Xeon Platinum | 104 | 512GB | 80GB H100 × 4 | $154,200.52 |
Included Services
- Systems are tailored to integrate into the supercomputers seamlessly
- 5-year warranty on the server hardware and upkeep
- Customized configuration options can be done on a case-by-case basis
- Tax information
Community Use
To offset the ongoing management costs of privately-available hardware, owners permit resources to be available for use by the ASU community during idle, unused periods. This is done through two separate QoS options: private and htc. "QoS" stands for Quality of Service, which refers to scheduling policies that determine job priorities and resource access on the supercomputer.
Details
Users with priority are given access to the private/grp_labname partition and QoS created specifically for the owning group. Using this privilege permits extended joblengths up to 30 days and a virtual exemption from fairshare score reductions for that priority usage.
Jobs submitted to privately-owned hardware under the private/private partition and QoS may run on privately-owned hardware for any length of time. However, these jobs will be preempted immediately (cancelled) if the resources they are allocated interfere with any submitted job by the owning group.
Jobs submitted to privately-owned hardware under the htc/public partition and QoS may run on privately-owned hardware for up to four hours without risk of preemption.