Comments on: Some analysis on the Red Hat announcement http://insidehpc.com/2008/10/06/some-analysis-on-the-red-hat-announcement/ HPC News Without the Noise for Supercomputing Professionals | insideHPC Sun, 19 May 2013 10:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Rich http://insidehpc.com/2008/10/06/some-analysis-on-the-red-hat-announcement/#comment-102419 Rich Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:00:32 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=2487#comment-102419 A quick breakdown on the cost of just the OS for my toy. This is ONLY for the compute nodes and completely ignores compilers, file system, scheduler, blah blah blah. Of course this is the "quoted" price and has very little to do with reality. Windows CCS. $2.7 Million. RedHat HPC $1.4 Million. It's no surprise Cray spun their own OS version. Cheaper in the long run. Well, maybe. Rich A quick breakdown on the cost of just the OS for my toy. This is ONLY for the compute nodes and completely ignores compilers, file system, scheduler, blah blah blah. Of course this is the “quoted” price and has very little to do with reality.

Windows CCS. $2.7 Million.
RedHat HPC $1.4 Million.

It’s no surprise Cray spun their own OS version. Cheaper in the long run. Well, maybe.

Rich

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