ACTIVATE attributes cloud, on-premises, Kubernetes, and AI usage to users, groups, and projects, and enforces the budgets administrators set.
Chargeback, showback, and budget enforcement
- Administrators set cost rates for CPU, memory, and GPU, and every usage record carries the user, group, and project.
- Usage is recorded at three-minute resolution across clusters.
- Budget thresholds set through the group manager notify, freeze, or shut down.
- Showback and chargeback reports come from the same records.
Where the numbers come from
Usage from cloud provider cost APIs, on-premises Slurm systems, Kubernetes namespaces, and the AI gateway lands in the same records, normalized to priced units. University research labs track GPU usage by lab, faculty member, or grant. Government programs track usage by program on the ACTIVATE High Security Platform. Enterprise data science teams allocate AI and ML infrastructure costs to business units.