Glossary

Account – An entity (company, department or other) that includes several individuals and that has or had a cloud usage agreement in OneCompute. Individuals are entitled to run jobs through OneCompute services if they have the user role and are assigned to an account with a service agreement.

Account administrator – A role granted to individuals who need to monitor and manage the usage of all the users assigned to their account. The account administrator can create accounting reports for the account and can see the consumption of all users assigned to the account. Ideally, each account should have at least one account administrator. Account administrators are also responsible for requesting the assignment of users to the account and responsible for permission changes in the account.

Credit – The unit of cloud computation cost. The number of credits consumed by a task per hour depends on the cost of the cloud computer specification that is used and the IP value of the software or feature that is run.

Credit balance – The difference between purchased credits and used credits for an account. A positive balance indicates remaining credits in the account, while a negative balance indicates over-usage and/or credits to be post-paid.

Credit limit – An account specific threshold. If the credit balance is below this threshold OneCompute will reject jobs submitted by users assigned to the account. The default value is 0.

Home Environment - The default OneCompute deployment that will run the user jobs. This defines the location of the Virtual Machines that will run the jobs as well as the storage location of any data resulting from those jobs.

Job – A cloud computation run that is submitted by a user through a client application consisting of one or more tasks.

Result Lake – The orchestration mechanism that distributes job results through different storage accounts to circumvent the data transfer limit of a single storage account. This is only used by specific client applications, typically those that generate many large files simultaneously.

Storage expiration date – The date until which users can access their cloud storage and schedule jobs using the cloud storage.

Storage limit – The agreed monthly average amount of storage an account should not surpass.

Task – The part of a job that comprises a run of one or more applications.

User – A role attributed to individuals which allows them to use OneCompute services while consuming resources of the account they are assigned to. Users can view their own jobs and a report of credit and storage usage. All users are restricted to the account usage limits, it is not possible to set limits for specific users.