Re:Got called to a professor’s office after a complaint his ...
by TristanBall on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @02:36AM
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I'd guess orders for these probably skew to the higher end.
If you're putting workstations in racks it's either to share them, or due for power/cooling/noise reasons, and the fact that you've got a workload that justifies having those kind of problems probably means all your other costs will still dwarf hardware.
There's usually a large premium on whatever the current largest size dimms, ssds and the top 10% or so of cpus and video cards. So I expect they sell a lot of machines that are "50%" size ( either max physical capacity with 50% size components, or half physical capacity, with 90-100% components ), and a fair number of maxed out just because it will often be cheaper to have 1 maxed out option then 3 smaller ones, and budgets don't matter except they do.
Places who cost engineering time at $100k/hour won't blink at $100k computers if it gets the job done.
If you're putting workstations in racks it's either to share them, or due for power/cooling/noise reasons, and the fact that you've got a workload that justifies having those kind of problems probably means all your other costs will still dwarf hardware.
There's usually a large premium on whatever the current largest size dimms, ssds and the top 10% or so of cpus and video cards. So I expect they sell a lot of machines that are "50%" size ( either max physical capacity with 50% size components, or half physical capacity, with 90-100% components ), and a fair number of maxed out just because it will often be cheaper to have 1 maxed out option then 3 smaller ones, and budgets don't matter except they do.
Places who cost engineering time at $100k/hour won't blink at $100k computers if it gets the job done.