Pricing Model for Cloud Computing Services for Research Applications

Abstract

Abstract-Institute of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Latvia continues its enduring development of research e-infrastructure. Currently IMCS UL maintains Scientific Cloud computing facility, provides collocation, hosting and virtualization services. As well it operates as a node for online correlation data streaming services from Irbene radio telescope in real time, HPC resources' disposal for computing tasks, usage of big data extracted from data storage for modeling and also for graphic data processing.In this article authors represent pricing policy realized in IMCS UL for cloud computing services. We define the groups of users and prices for services for each user group. Users are split in groups as follows: business companies (defined as Service Price List), research institutions (defined as Service Fee List) and research project partners (defined as Service Coast List). In price list fixed price level can be evaluated with simple cloud computing pricing Model.