Capability and Capacity Computing - Cost and Performance

Capability

Capacity

Commodity Systems (1.5 x N)

Commodity Systems (1.5 x N ??)

3 year continual access to 32 CPUs:

High-end (£0.5 / CPU hour) : £420,000

in-house commodity system : £50,000

Specification

Usage

Cost

Units

CPU

Memory

I/O

MPP/ASCI

1

600

CPUs, IBM

p690+ (1.5 TB)

HPC

community

10,000

2,000

3

,000

200

-

300

SMP

16

-

processor SGI

Altix 350, Itanium 2

(10GB RAM )

Department

100

20

25

20

-

30

PC

Pentium

-

4 Xeon /

3.4GHz (512 MByte

,

30 GB)

Desktop

1

1

1

1

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