Types of Co-Location Services

The type of ‘co-location’ service that best fits your needs is usually determined by the system in question, the long-term support costs for the system and its placement in the OITDC, and the system administration support available to the system owner.  At present, OIT provides three service types with differing costs:

1. Co-location Service Only

Provides OITDC environment to the system.

• The system can consist of an entire ‘rack’ of rack-mountable systems, a smaller set of rack-mounted systems, or even non-rack-mounted systems within a provided enclosure.
  We encourage rack-mounted systems to minimize user costs.
• No system administration service is provided to the system.
• Access is provided to the OITDC for outside system administrators.
• See the Pricing tab for cost.

2. Co-location with a System Administration Contract

This is the same as #1 Co-location but also includes system administration services through OIT’s Distributed Computing Services.

• System Administration – See Unix Platform as a Service for service offerings and prices.
• Co-location costs are separate. See the Pricing tab for cost.

3. Join the MPC Consortium

For system owners about to purchase rack-mounted systems to create ‘Beowulf-type’ computational clusters.

• For more details on this option please see the HPC3 website.