The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
Institutions need to know what they will be charged for before they commit. This page, published by The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI), explains how use of Nexus Foundry is designed to be metered, where the service boundary sits and the rule that no charge applies unless it was disclosed in writing beforehand. No prices are published on this page, and no charges apply at the current stage. The current service level is R0: information and enquiries.
Usage and billing · Project space 12 · Cluster east
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Nexus Foundry · Workspace and job consoleWorkspace and job console, in outline: domain structure with placeholder names and illustrative values, not a record.
Nexus Foundry usage is how use of the environment is designed to be metered, where the service boundary sits and the rule that no charge applies unless it was disclosed in writing beforehand. No prices are published on the page, and no charges apply at the current stage.
For usage and billing, in GCRI's spatial-intelligence reading, the map opens on night lights, true-colour imagery and population density, framed on North America; every other NASA layer, live feed and forecast waits in the layer list.
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For usage and billing, in GCRI's spatial-intelligence reading, the map opens on night lights, true-colour imagery and population density, framed on North America; every other NASA layer, live feed and forecast waits in the layer list.Satellite and model products as NASA publishes them, each with its own date; indicators, not assessments of any place; claim ceiling INTEGRATED.
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At the current service level, Nexus Foundry provides information and receives enquiries. Contribution payments and computing allocations open only when their service team, terms and review capacity are in place. An enquiry never creates a charge.
Use is recorded and attributed to the programme and project that incurred it.
Compute, storage and system use are measured in units defined in the agreement before work starts.
Usage is metered independently of scientific state, so budget pressure cannot change whether a result is reproduced or accepted.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Total cost of ownership | The full cost of a system over its life, including energy, staff and facilities. |
| Egress fee | A charge for transferring data out of a cloud provider's network. |
| Service level R0 | The current service level of Nexus pages: information and enquiries only. An enquiry receives a reference and a named next step; it creates no membership, contract, assignment or commitment. |
Any fee appears only with the issuer, currency, effective date and applicable schedule recorded in writing.
Use is governed by an institutional agreement with the contracting party, GCRI Canada, or as that agreement provides.
Metered use is reported to the project owner against the agreed units.
A question about a charge is reviewed by someone not responsible for the contested decision.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.