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⚡ Estimate resource consumption with Billing Unit Calculator

Summary
This tutorial shows you how to use the Billing Unit Calculator on the research.csc.fi website to estimate the Billing Unit usage in your project.
Internet
https://my.csc.fi/buc (no login required) 
flowchart LR
    A[Open BU calculator] --> B[Select service]
    B --> C[Fill in Job /<br>Storage / configuration<br>resource need]
    C --> D[Add to estimates]
    D --> E{Estimate<br>another<br>service}
    E -->|Yes| B
    E -->|No| F[View / Send<br>estimates to email]

Prerequisites

  1. No prerequisites

🟩 Procedure

Go to the Billing Unit Calculator web page.

Select the Service 1⃣ you want to evaluate.

Selectable services

Let us select cPouta 2⃣ service and category of standard flavors 3⃣ as an example.

Let us select cPouta

In this example, we'll configure a cPouta standard.medium flavour for one month.

Add a floating IP address and 2 TiB of storage 4⃣. After configuring your setup, press the '+ Add to estimates' 5⃣ button.

Add a configuration to estimates

The configuration is added to the list of estimates 6⃣ and details can be viewed by expanding the configuration.

Added configuration with details expanded
You can continue from step 1⃣ to add more configurations.

When you are finished, you can email the estimate to yourself if you wish.

Tip

By default, course and student projects are assigned a fixed resource of 100 000 BUs, so there is no need to apply for resource packages.

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