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<br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Mark Hahn <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hahn@mcmaster.ca">hahn@mcmaster.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Think about it: if you pay 1/3 the cost of a new node per year in rent<br>and utilities,<br></blockquote><br>
</div>that seems amazingly high to me. I don't have much sense for rent,<br>but even if we ran our clusters on "retail" power rates it would only<br>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<br>
kind of costs, wouldn't it make sense to consider a colo site? from<br>a cursory grep of the web, it sounds like they're still substantially<br>less than 33%...
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