Definitions

• Billing group: The platform’s recharge and consumption functions are operated and accounted for on a billing group basis.

  • Relationship between billing group and project: A project can only have one billing group associated with it, but a billing group can be associated with multiple projects.
  • Relationship between billing group members and project members: Both a billing group and a project can have multiple members, but the list of members may differ between them.

• Billing group type: Include master billing group, sub billing group, and ordinary billing group:

  • Ordinary billing group: The most common type of billing group on the platform, suitable for personal projects and internal projects.
  • Master billing group: Created by the platform, applicable to B2B users of the platform, and supports the management of sub billing groups.
  • Sub billing group: Created by the master billing group, suitable for partners of B2b users.

• Billing group member: Billing group members are divided into two roles: owner and user. The role menus and functional permissions are as follows.

• Project type: There are currently three types of projects on the platform:

  • PM Project: Projects synchronized from the BGI PM project management system. The billing group defaults to the PM project number( (i.e., PM billing group).
  • Business Project: Projects synchronized from the BGI STOmics Business Management System. The billing group defaults to the business project number(i.e., Business billing group). Additionally, some business projects are established based on PM projects in the BGI STOmics Business Management System. Upon user request, the billing group is updated to the corresponding PM billing group.
  • CRM Project：Projects synchronized from the BGI CRM system. The billing group defaults to the CRM project number( (i.e., PM billing group).
  • Personal Project: Projects you create using the platform’s "Create Project" feature.

Among them, PM projects, Business projects and CRM projects are collectively referred to as BGI internal projects.

• Billing cycle: The frequency at which the platform issues billing statements, such as hourly, daily, monthly, etc.
• Instance specification: Server specifications used for running tasks; different specifications represent different CPUs and memory capacities, with varying prices.
• Requested configuration: The instance specification you apply for running tasks.
• Actual running configuration: The actual instance specification used during task execution. Due to factors such as cloud provider supply, differences in task schedulers, etc., the actual running configuration may differ from the requested configuration. The final cost will be calculated based on the actual running configuration.
• Official workflow: Refers to the workflows marked with "DCS," as shown in the diagram below.