E-HPC is billed for the following items: ECS instances, E-HPC
service, Network
Attached Storage (NAS), and external Internet traffic of logon nodes.
NOTE: If you have a large cluster, you can contact us by
submitting a ticket in order
to purchase at a discounted rate.
Cost of ECS Instances
When you activate an E-HPC cluster, each node in the cluster is
an ECS instance and
the price varies depending on the selected ECS instance hardware configuration.
When
you create an E-HPC
cluster, purchase of Alibaba Cloud ECS is automatically completed. You don't
need to
prepare ECS
instances in advance. If you are entitled to a discount for ECS, you can enjoy
the
same discount when
buying ECS instances for E-HPC activation.
ECS Pricing ECS Pricing
ECS Billing DetailsECS Billing Details
Pay-As-You-Go Pay-As-You-Go
Cost of E-HPC Service
E-HPC provides the multi-dimensional management of your cluster,
scales in or scales
out the instances to meet your demand, and integrates with the features of
OpenAPI,
monitor and alert,
O&M tools, and automatic server O&M in the background. The charge is
calculated by core-hours of
users. If the total number of cluster cores of a user in a region is smaller
than
200 (vCPU), no charge
is collected. If the total number is greater than 200 (vCPU), $0.003 US is
charged
for each extra
core-hour.
Cost of NAS Space
NAS is used as the shared storage space for all nodes in an E-HPC
cluster. For
pricing details, please refer to NAS product documents.
Cost for External Network Traffic of the Logon Nodes
After an E-HPC cluster is created, logon nodes are bound with
EIPs and allocated
public bandwidth by default. Traffic is billed by usage per hour. Fees are only
charged for outbound
traffic. Inbound traffic is free.
For example, if you use 10GB of outbound public traffic in an
hour, the charge is
10GB × price per GB ($ amount per hour). Traffic fees vary from region to
region.
Total Cost for E-HPC cluster
The total cost of an E-HPC cluster is determined by the total
price displayed on the
price calculator when you create the cluster.
