Instant Capacity on Demand (iCOD) User's Guide for versions B.05.x

About this guide
Introduction
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Pay Per Use Pay per use (PPU) is a pricing model in which you are charged for actual
processor usage. You acquire a specific hardware platform and number of
processors, and are charged for the actual usage, based on the number of
active processors in the complex.
The billing amounts vary as your processor usage needs increase or
decrease. This is different than the traditional financing approaches that
are based on fixed payment amounts for a specified period.
Pay per use is currently available for Superdome, rp7410, and rp8400
servers. It will be available on other HP enterprise servers in the future.
Terminology
icod-purchase The iCOD software and manpages refer to the term icod-purchase. Your
iCOD system displays icod-purchase as the Contract type in the output
from the icod_stat command. The manpages icod(5), icod_modify(1M),
and icod_stat(1M) also make references to icod-purchase.
Throughout the remainder of this document, icod-purchase is referred
to as “iCOD”.
See “iCOD Terminology” on page 138 for commonly used terms with the
HP On Demand Solutions program.