We get a lot of questions regarding the cost of using Idun, or how to become a shareholder.
Idun is a shareholder machine. This means that all users with an account on Idun are affiliated with a faculty, department or research group with a support agreement with NTNU IT. If your affiliation does not have a support agreement with NTNU IT, you are not entitled to use Idun. We make exceptions for special cases or if you want to try Idun out before becoming a shareholder
To become a shareholder you have to invest in two components: Some piece of hardware, in essence single computenodes, and a support agreement with NTNU IT.
Currently (spring 2021) the pricing for an support agreement with NTNU IT is ca 22.000 NOK per year for a three year agreement or five year agreement.
The minimum cost of a computenode (spring 2021) is ca 65.000 NOK
We recomend a five year support agreement.
The cost matrix looks like this :
UPDATED AUTUMN 2022
(cpu/gpu hourly cost also takes into account power/cooling)
Current GPUs bought are A100(40/80 GB)
| support cost | node cost | Total cost | cpu/gpu hour cost per cpu core/GPU | |
| 3 year cpu (56 cores) | 69000 | 90000 | 156000 | 0.15 NOK |
| 5 year cpu (56 cores) | 115000 | 90000 | 205000 | 0.09 NOK |
| 3 year gpu (4 x A100) | 66000 | 850000 | 916000 | 8.10 NOK |
| 5 year gpu (4 x A100) | 115000 | 850000 | 965000 | 5.00NOK |
| 3 year gpu (10gpu) | 66000 | 1650000 | 1716000 | 6.25 NOK/GPU |
| 5 year gpu (10 gpu) | 115000 | 1650000 | 1765000 | 3.75 nok/gpu |
To get pricing and shareholder info, please send an email to:
Arne Dag Fidjestøl <adf@ntnu.no>