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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Hi Fubo – While I don’t have any answers to your questions, it sounds like you might not have a cap yet. If that is the case, I strongly recommend staying off the cap system.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">It took us several years to phase out our various caps at SNSF. We observed so many issues when we had a cap. Users would leave tools enabled, push to do all their experiments
during a certain month, share accounts, …. Faculty argued that they should be able to budget but I think this turned out to be an issue anymore. When we started to phase out the caps, we dropped rates slightly and also started a lower off-peak rates during
evening/night and weekends (<a href="https://snsf.stanford.edu/labmembers/rates">https://snsf.stanford.edu/labmembers/rates</a>). The off-peak rates now allow budget conscious users or expert users to get a financial break when staff are not available.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Associate Director, Stanford Nano Shared Facilities, Stanford University, http://snsf.stanford.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> labnetwork <labnetwork-bounces@mtl.mit.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Fubo Rao<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 18, 2024 1:37 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> labnetwork@mtl.mit.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [labnetwork] soft cap number for research groups<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I totally understand if it is something you don't want to share. But, if you can, I wonder if you have a soft cap number for your internal research groups, aka, professors. Is that a monthly cap, yearly cap, and what is your cap number?
Do you charge a different percentage to the amount above the cap number, or it is free of charge after reaching the cap?<br clear="all">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black">Fubo Rao, Ph.D.,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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9500 Gilman Drive #0436<br>
La Jolla, CA 92093-0436<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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