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- Rent from CAC (RedCloud)
- Walk through rates and scenarios.
- 12 cores available at any one time.
- $400 buys you 8585 core*hours, which is ~1 core for an entire year, non-stop.
- For 96 cores, that's $38.4K for 1 year, non-stop.
- 96 = 8 nodes, each with dual 6-core procs => 8 * 12 = 96
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Option: | ChemIT | CAC: | CAC: | Amazon (EC3?) or | Other ideas? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hardware costs | $25K | - | $25K | - |
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Hardware support | Yes. | - | Yes. | - |
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OS install and configuration | Yes. CentOS 6.4 |
| Yes. CentOS 6.4 |
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Cluster and queuing management | Yes. Warewulf, with options | - | Yes. ROCKS, no options. | - |
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Research software install and configuration | Yes | No | Yes; additional cost | No |
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Application debugging and optimization support | Not usually. | Yes; additional cost | Yes; additional cost | No. |
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