What is covered
- The computer services cost covers servers, specialty software licensing, network disk space, hardware maintenance and high-speed gigabit network connections within the SCI Institute and externally to the Internet.
What is not covered
- This cost does not provide workstations or other desktop hardware for use by individual project personnel. Additionally, this cost is not included in the University's indirect costs pool.
The SCI Institute cost allocation methodology was based on the University's Department of Computer Science's computing facility model, which was approved by DHHS in November 1994. The SCI Institute's facility model was approved by the University Governmental Accounting Department on October 21, 2002.