ss@wanginst.UUCP (02/09/87)
Hi folks, we are considering entering the real world of research grants - even from the government. My understanding is that it might work something like this: 1. We get a grant from somebody - say DARPA. 2. They (or somebody) give us some front money. 3. we buy a machine with that front money. 4. we let lots of poeple use the machine 'cause the research doesn't use all of the cycles. 5. we charge the non-grant users at the same rate we charge the grant users. 6. say what? Charge users? To charge these guys we need to account for their use, say connect time, cpu utilization, disk storage, pages printed, etc. So the question is, to all you folks who are using/running DARPA or other Gov.type grants: how do you do you charge back? What software do you use to do the resource accounting, what do you actually charge for (not the price, but the resources). Thanks for any and all. -- Sid Shapiro -- Wang Institute of Graduate Studies ss@wanginst.EDU (ss%wanginst@relay.cs.net) (617)649-9731 decvax!wanginst!ss