A million-dollar engineering problem

Re:A million-dollar engineering problem by tiplus on Friday March 17, 2017 @06:30AM (#13892889)

I would estimate the cost for three years like this:

- 1U single socket Supermicro Xeon E5v4-2630 10core+1GTX1070 GPU = 1500EUR

- operation costs (power+cooling) over 3 years = 1500EUR

- cost of 2 hardware admins 160k/year

- renting local rack space 15EUR/U

This equals about 145 servers for 3 years for us for 1 Million. The setup is highly optimized for _one_ set of data crunching tasks, not DB. We do not need much ram, or network but require a specific CPU/GPU ratio.

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Re:A million-dollar engineering problem by geezerjay on Saturday March 18, 2017 @11:57AM (#13901835)

>cost of 2 hardware admins 160k/year

This is by far the most expensive item in your estimate, and I'm sure that you don't suddenly need to hire another pair of admins when you buy a single Xeon blade.

Once you factor this fact in your estimates, you'll realise that the unit cost of each server is, unlike your estimate, negligible.

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