Speaker
Dr
Tony Wong
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Description
The advent of cloud computing centers 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.
Primary author
Dr
Tony Wong
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Co-authors
Mr
Alexandr Zaytsev
(Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))
Christopher Hollowell
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
Michael Ernst
(Unknown)
Richard Hogue
(Brookhaven National Laboratory)
William Strecker-Kellogg
(Brookhaven National Lab)
