Rocky Support
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Supporting Rocky
Rocky grows through your financial support (e.g., direct costs built into grants or start up funds). By contributing to building and maintaining Rocky, you can assure priority access to the resources you contribute.
Node Costs
Below are examples of node costs. While we update the below list routinely, hardware prices change daily. The below table is meant to give a sense of scale and not a guaranteed cost.
Storage Node
Storage Nodes are added to our Ceph storage subsystem to provide highly redundant and fault tolerant storage accessible to the Rocky Cluster.
| Quote Date | January 25, 2023 |
| Quoted Cost | $12,155.32 |
| Capacity | 40TB |
| Configuration | Dell R740xd 16 x 8TB HDD 4 x 1.9TB M.2 SSD Additional drives to extend backup system. |
Compute Node
| Quote Date | May 1, 2023 |
| Quoted Cost | $17000 |
| Compute | 112 vcpu 512MB ram |
| Configuration | Dell R750 2 x Xeon Gold 6330 |
