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In addition to Amazon, services and providers in this space include Cornell's own CAC’s RedCloud, as well as Google Compute Engine and Microsoft Azure.
Google Compute's calculator and comparing to ChemIT's clusters:
Comparing Google Compute to a ChemIT's systems.
Google system we compared were 4 of their "CP-COMPUTEENGINE-VMIMAGE-N1-STANDARD-8" (8 core, 30GB RAM).
Using that service, expect to pay an Effective Hourly Rate of $0.392. And Monthly total: $1,132.10.
- And that does not include upload/ download or data storage costs.
ChemIT buys a 4-computer, 2U system that costs ~$10,000 (2.5K*4)
- And that does not include ChemIT's services or data storage costs.
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