Without going into a big research project.. Here in Southern California, rents are about $1/sq ft/month for cheap industrial space. Electricity is about $0.20/kWh (maybe for a big bulk consumer, it gets down to the $0.10/kWh range)
hmm. "wholesale" power here is $Cdn .05/kWh - on home bills it gets padded out to about $.10 by "delivery" and "debt retirement" surcharges.
Figure a node draws 400w, and you can stack 20 nodes in a rack, which
hmm. I find 1U typicalfor clusters, and see 350W as typical.
occupies 10 square feet (need to have room to stand in front of the rack, etc.)
I'd probably go 3 tiles/rack - mainly for airflow.
The rent is tiny compared to utilities. $2K/node seems plausible (3*
hmm, another difference is that I'd expect to pay ~$5k for an HPC node. thanks, mark hahn. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
