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Community Clusters or the Cloud: Continuing cost assessment of on-premises and cloud HPC in Higher Education

Published: 28 July 2019 Publication History

Abstract

Understanding total cost of ownership (TCO) for HPC systems on a site-specific range of applications is a critical component of any RFP or capacity plan at research computing centers. With the increasing industry use of the HPC in the cloud, understanding and comparing costs of on-premises HPC resources and cloud-based options is more important than ever. In this paper we present methods to determine site-specific applications mix, calculating TCO for on-premises and cloud HPC resources, and the comparison of the two. Additionally we present a cost-analysis of Purdue's Community Cluster program with current cloud offerings.

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PEARC '19: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2019: Rise of the Machines (learning)
July 2019
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ISBN:9781450372275
DOI:10.1145/3332186
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  1. HPC
  2. ROI
  3. TCO
  4. cloud
  5. cost analysis

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