University Research Facility in Big Data Analytics (UBDA)

UBDA is one of the Central Facilities at PolyU that provides computational resources, including GPU cards and cloud storage, to all eligible users. To initiate UBDA services, please follows the steps below:

 

Step 1:  New User Registration

All new users must complete and submit the registration form prior to service activation  New User Registration

 

Step 2: Service Subscription via URFMS

There are currently two UBDA service subscription plans available for users to choose from. For more details, please visit the UBDA Website

 

- Basic Plan

Fee: HKD 1500 per quarter

Users can enjoy all services provided by Inspur-2018 cluster, including HDD storage, HPC service*, non-GPU Private Cloud Service, Jupyterlab Online Service*

*GPU cards' model are NVidia Tesla P100 16GB

 

- Advanced Plan

Fee: HKD 6,000 per quarter

Users can enjoy all services provided by Inspur-2018 cluster and Lovelace-2024 cluster, including HDD and NVMe SDD storage and GPU-enabled virtual machine (GVM)** provided by Lovelace-2024 cluster

**GPU cards' model are NVidia RTX6000 Ada/ L40S/ RTX4090

 

The minimum commitment of both is one quarter, and no additional fees will be incurred beyond the chosen plan. All subscriptions are non-refundable.

Subscription coverage is structured around fixed quarterly periods – Q1(1/1-31/3), Q2(1/4-30/6), Q3(1/7-30/9), Q4(1/10-31/12). For example, if payment is made on 25 October, the subscription still applies to 4th quarter and will expire on 31 December. Certainly, users may choose to pay for one or multiple quarters in advance. In such cases, it is advisable to specify the intended coverage period in an optional note upon the time of payment.

 

Step 3: Account Creation and Confirmation

UBDA will review the application after receiving the new user account registration. A notification email will be sent to user’s PolyU email address once the account has been setup (typically takes 3-5 business days).