{"id":1162,"date":"2011-01-20T10:27:37","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T08:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldblogs.uct.ac.za\/blog\/big-bytes\/2011\/01\/20\/comparative-shopping"},"modified":"2015-08-14T14:08:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-14T12:08:56","slug":"comparative-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/2011\/01\/20\/comparative-shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparative shopping"},"content":{"rendered":"UCT-ICTS offers BL460 dual quad core CPUs with 2.4 GHz Xeon processors.\u00a0 The\r\nblades come with either 16 or 32 GB of RAM, fiber channel HBAs and dual NICs.\u00a0 Compared to <a href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ec2\/\">Amazon<\/a> each CPU gives approximately 2 EC2\r\ncompute units.\u00a0 This equates to 16 EC2 compute units per blade.\r\n\r\nAssume that a fully running blade will consume R20 electricity in\r\noperational power and cooling power a day.\u00a0 Additionally add 1 hour support a day at R100.\u00a0 This last is probably an overestimate on a per\r\nuser basis, however it includes general maintenance for both HPC and the Grid.\r\n\r\nFactoring in 500GB of SAN storage the cost of a BL460 blade is about R50,000 and\r\nover its expected 3 year life span can can be broken down to R45 per day.\u00a0 To run a 30 day compute job on the UCT cluster fully\r\nutilizing one blade would therefore cost approximately R5,000.\u00a0 A job that consumed only 1 CPU however would cost only 1\/8, i.e. R625. This last number is however not strictly accurate, as the server\r\nconsumes a base level of power and requires a minimum of cooling regardless of whether it is running jobs.\u00a0 Additionally a job requiring\r\nonly 1 CPU may or may not require more or less administrative support, and also may require more or less space on the SAN.\r\n\r\nAdditionally cost of bandwidth inside the ICTS cluster is essentially\r\nfree as it's LAN traffic.\u00a0 50 GB traffic in and out of the Amazon cloud a month would cost approximately R80, and this does not take the\r\nadditional cost of the SANREN bandwidth into account, although this would be fairly minimal.\u00a0 <strong>Currently however ICTS is not charging for use of its HPC cluster.<\/strong>\r\n\r\nOne EC2 Compute Unit provides the equivalent CPU capacity of a 1.2\r\nGHz Xeon processor.\u00a0 There is no Amazon instance that compares directly to ICTS's system which\r\nwould slot in somewhere between Amazon options 1 and 2.\u00a0 The prices quoted below assume a R$ exchange rate of 7, as well as access to the US-East Amazon compute region.\u00a0 The three Amazon options most similar to UCT's resources are:\r\n\r\n1) High-CPU Extra Large Instance 7 GB of memory, 20 EC2 Compute Units, 1690 GB of local instance storage.\u00a0 A 30 day compute job would cost R3,486\r\n\r\n2) High-Memory Double Extra Large Instance 34 GB of memory, 13 EC2\r\nCompute Units, 850 GB of local instance storage.\u00a0 A 30 day compute job would cost R5,124\r\n\r\n3) Cluster Compute Quadruple Extra Large 23 GB memory, 33 EC2 Compute Units, 1690 GB of local instance storage.\u00a0 A 30 day compute job would cost R8,197\r\n\r\nAn equivalent server from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rackspace.co.za\/cloud-hosting\/cloud-servers\/\">Rack Space<\/a>; 16GB RAM, 2.8GHz Dual quad core, 620GB disk space and RHEL would cost about R6820 per month at a R\u00a3 exchange rate of 11.\r\n\r\nPlease note that UCT costs are approximate.\u00a0 No comparison of quality of service as well as stability of infrastructure has been taken into account.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UCT-ICTS offers BL460 dual quad core CPUs with 2.4 GHz Xeon processors.&nbsp; The<br \/>\nblades come with either 16 or 32 GB of RAM, fiber channel HBAs and dual NICs.&nbsp; Compared to <a href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/ec2\/\">Amazon<\/a> each CPU gives approximately 2 EC2<br \/>\ncompute units.&nbsp; This equates to 16 EC2 compute units per blade.<\/p>\n<p>Assume that a fully running blade will consume R20 electricity in<br \/>\noperational power and cooling power a day.&nbsp; Additionally add 1 hour support a day at R100.&nbsp; This last is probably an overestimate on a per<br \/>\nuser basis, however it includes general maintenance for both HPC and the Grid.<\/p>\n<p>Factoring in 500GB of SAN storage the cost of a BL460 blade is about R50,000 and<br \/>\nover its expected 3 year life span can can be broken down to R45 per day.&nbsp; To run a 30 day compute job on the UCT cluster fully<br \/>\nutilizing one blade would therefore cost approximately R5,000.&nbsp; A job that consumed only 1 CPU however would cost only 1\/8, i.e. R625. This last number is however not strictly accurate, as the server<br \/>\nconsumes a base level of power and requires a minimum of cooling regardless of whether it is running jobs.&nbsp; Additionally a job requiring<br \/>\nonly 1 CPU may or may not require more or less administrative support, and also may require more or less space on the SAN.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally cost of bandwidth inside the ICTS cluster is essentially<br \/>\nfree as it&#8217;s LAN traffic.&nbsp; 50 GB traffic in and out of the Amazon cloud a month would cost approximately R80, and this does not take the<br \/>\nadditional cost of the SANREN bandwidth into account, although this would be fairly minimal.&nbsp; <strong>Currently however ICTS is not charging for use of its HPC cluster.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>One EC2 Compute Unit provides the equivalent CPU capacity of a 1.2<br \/>\nGHz Xeon processor.&nbsp; There is no Amazon instance that compares directly to ICTS&#8217;s system which<br \/>\nwould slot in somewhere between Amazon options 1 and 2.&nbsp; The prices quoted below assume a R$ exchange rate of 7, as well as access to the US-East Amazon compute region.&nbsp; The three Amazon options most similar to UCT&#8217;s resources are: <\/p>\n<p>\n1) High-CPU Extra Large Instance 7 GB of memory, 20 EC2 Compute Units, 1690 GB of local instance storage.&nbsp; A 30 day compute job would cost R3,486<\/p>\n<p>2) High-Memory Double Extra Large Instance 34 GB of memory, 13 EC2<br \/>\nCompute Units, 850 GB of local instance storage.&nbsp; A 30 day compute job would cost R5,124<\/p>\n<p>3) Cluster Compute Quadruple Extra Large 23 GB memory, 33 EC2 Compute Units, 1690 GB of local instance storage.&nbsp; A 30 day compute job would cost R8,197<\/p>\n<p>An equivalent server from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rackspace.co.za\/cloud-hosting\/cloud-servers\/\">Rack Space<\/a>; 16GB RAM, 2.8GHz Dual quad core, 620GB disk space and RHEL would cost about R6820 per month at a R&pound; exchange rate of 11.<\/p>\n<p>Please note that UCT costs are approximate.&nbsp; No comparison of quality of service as well as stability of infrastructure has been taken into account. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Comparative shopping - UCT HPC<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ucthpc.uct.ac.za\/index.php\/2011\/01\/20\/comparative-shopping\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Comparative shopping - UCT HPC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"UCT-ICTS offers BL460 dual quad core CPUs with 2.4 GHz Xeon processors.&nbsp; The  blades come with either 16 or 32 GB of RAM, fiber channel HBAs and dual NICs.&nbsp; Compared to Amazon each CPU gives approximately 2 EC2  compute units.&nbsp; This equates to 16 EC2 compute units per blade. Assume that a fully running blade will consume R20 electricity in  operational power and cooling power a day.&nbsp; Additionally add 1 hour support a day at R100.&nbsp; This last is probably an overestimate on a per  user basis, however it includes general maintenance for both HPC and the Grid. Factoring in 500GB of SAN storage the cost of a BL460 blade is about R50,000 and  over its expected 3 year life span can can be broken down to R45 per day.&nbsp; To run a 30 day compute job on the UCT cluster fully  utilizing one blade would therefore cost approximately R5,000.&nbsp; A job that consumed only 1 CPU however would cost only 1\/8, i.e. R625. 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