Operating Dedicated Data Centers – Is It Cost-Effective?

The advent of cloud computing centres such as Amazon's EC2 and Google's Computing Engine has elicited comparisons with dedicated computing clusters. Discussions on appropriate usage of cloud resources (both academic and commercial) and costs have ensued. This presentation discusses a detai...

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Published in:Journal of physics. Conference series 2014-06, Vol.513 (6), p.62053-5, Article 062053
Main Authors: Ernst, M, Hogue, R, Hollowell, C, Strecker-Kellog, W, Wong, A, Zaytsev, A
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cloud computing
Clusters
Computation
Computing costs
Cost analysis
Cost effectiveness
Costs
Data centers
Extrapolation
Operating costs
Physics
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Summary:The advent of cloud computing centres such as Amazon's EC2 and Google's Computing Engine has elicited comparisons with dedicated computing clusters. Discussions on appropriate usage of cloud resources (both academic and commercial) and costs have ensued. This presentation discusses a detailed analysis of the costs of operating and maintaining the RACF (RHIC and ATLAS Computing Facility) compute cluster at Brookhaven National Lab and compares them with the cost of cloud computing resources under various usage scenarios. An extrapolation of likely future cost effectiveness of dedicated computing resources is also presented.
ISSN:1742-6596
1742-6588
1742-6596
DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/513/6/062053