Time-limited discount “sale” rate to attract users or dissuade users

Interested: IU, PSC

Suggested Requirements:

• Provide RPs with a UI that shows the regular exchange rate, and lets them enter a different exchange rate and start/end dates. During that time, the sale exchange rate takes precedence.

• This must also include some way to communicate to users that there IS a sale price, to attract people to the sale. (maybe this? How to Share News, Events & Trainings, and Outages )
  

Tagged allocations with special rates (for preemptible instances, different priority queues)

Interested: IU, PSC

Suggested Requirements:

• RPs would have a UI to specify a tagged type of allocation (eg “pre-emptible instance”), along with a description of what that tag means, and an exchange rate for that type. (the UI should also show the default exchange rate for comparison)

• When the user selects the resource, they should be shown something that indiciates that a discount is available if they select the special tagged type, and the description should be prominently shows (so the user understands the restrictions or special rules of that allocation tag)

• These tags should flow through XRAS to XACCT and AMIE, so the RP can handle the special allocation appropriately.
  

Notes:
IU is interested in this, but doesn’t currently have the infrastructure in place to even support these preemptible instances, so this is a “maybe we could use this eventually” as opposed to a “we’d love to have this now” feature.

Ability to manually edit base rate

Interested: PSC

Suggested Requirements:

• PSC wants to be able to specify the base exchange rate manually instead of having it be automatically calculated based on conversion factors/linpack.

Rates that require usage during certain time period

Interested: PSC

This is similar to a time-limited sale, and tagged allocations, but PSC would like to be able to say “here’s the price if you use your allocation in the next 3 months”