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- Buy cycles from CAC (RedCloud, minimum of $400 for 8585 core*hour
- http://www.cac.cornell.edu/RedCloud/start.aspx
- 12 cores available at any one time on one system.
- Can access more than one system at a time, but systems are not linked.
- $400 (minimum) buys you 8585 core*hours
- This comes out to ~1 core for an entire year, non-stop.
- For 96 cores, that's $38.4K for 1 year, non-stop.(They have a max of 96 cores <http://www.it.cornell.edu/about/projects/virtual/test.cfm>.)
- 96 = 8 nodes, each with dual 6-core procs => 8 * 12 = 96
- Or, for $25K, that's ~536,562 cores*hours.
- $25K = $400*62.5 units. And each unit is 8585 core*hours, so 62.5 of them gets you 536,562.5 cores*hours.
- That comes to ~178,854 core*hours/ yr for 3 years. Which is 20.8 core system running non-stop each year. (Compare to one hardware node, which has 12 cores.)
- CNF, w/ Derek Stuart.
- A very reliable cluster, per Roald.
- Determine costs, processes, and trade-offs if use another cloud service, such as:
- Amazon. Amazon AC3?
- Google. Google Compute?
- Microsoft. Microsoft Azure?
Host hardware at CAC rather than with ChemIT
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