well my apologies to all who are following this thread i took it off topic. but i have been enlightened so now i know the reasoning behind replacement of older hardware in a cluster
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Mark Hahn <h...@mcmaster.ca> wrote: > Think about it: if you pay 1/3 the cost of a new node per year in rent >> and utilities, >> > > that seems amazingly high to me. I don't have much sense for rent, > but even if we ran our clusters on "retail" power rates it would only > amount to 2.3% of purchase cost. you could pretty easily argue that our > purchase prices are high, but even so still < 10%/year. with your > kind of costs, wouldn't it make sense to consider a colo site? from > a cursory grep of the web, it sounds like they're still substantially > less than 33%... > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Jonathan Aquilina
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