Accounts

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Account types

CBS offers two account types for server usage, each designed to meet different computational needs:
  • Standard user account (CBS Basic): Free access to 4 cores and 16 GB of memory, ideal for regular computational tasks.
  • Power User Account (CBS Heavy): Access to 12 cores and 47 GB of memory for more demanding workloads (additional charges apply).

Choose the account that best suits your workload, and don’t hesitate to reach out if you need assistance.

Fee schedule

With current CFI and BrainsCAN support, the charges are:

  • Storage - $50/TB/year
  • Power user account - $1000/year for first account, $500/year for each subsequent account

Note: With the purchase of storage, any number of Standard user accounts can be created.

Billing will be done on a fixed quarterly schedule.

Setting up an account

New PI accounts

  1. You must use your valid uwo.ca email address when requesting an account.
  2. Please see below for the current fee schedule.
  3. It is easy to increase the size of storage allocations. Consider only asking for a nominal amount of storage to start with, as it is not easy to decrease the size of a storage allocation once it has been set up.

PIs looking to set up a new account should fill out the following form.

New user (non-PI) accounts

  1. All user accounts must be associated with a pre-existing PI account.
  2. You must use your valid uwo.ca email address when requesting an account.
  3. Your PI will be charged for each 'power user' account, so please check with him/her to see if you need this functionality.

Non-PI users looking to get up a new account should fill out the following form.

After you have filled out the form

The information you provide in the form will be forwarded onto IT Helpdesk, who will in turn set up your account. You will be emailed when your account is ready. We attempt to fulfill all new account requests within 1 business day of receiving the request, however, there may be delays if IT Helpdesk is busy.

Account changes

Do you need to make changes to your account? Use whichever form is appropriate.

  1. PIs needing to increase storage, create new project spaces, or update speedcode, please use this form.
  2. Users (both PI and non-PI) wishing to request access to additional datashares, change account type (Basic or Power), update contract end date, or request access to project spaces, please use this form.