Organizations considering investments in high performance computing (HPC) should look deeply at the hidden costs of on-premises HPC solutions. These factors, including lost productivity and missed innovation, can negatively affect other R&D investments that depend on HPC and thus lower revenues.
Most organizations will find that cloud-based HPC solutions will deliver better ROI, even when a basic Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) analysis suggests continued on-premises investments. Furthermore, lower cost has not always been the primary accelerant for innovation when it comes to cloud adoption. Instead, the agility and flexibility offered by cloud-based HPC have helped organizations move forward unconstrained by the need to forecast future HPC workloads every few years.
Straightforward TCO analysis is bound to miss some key factors that are difficult to quantify but still have a profound effect on the bottom line.
This paper from AWS will examine these hidden factors that should influence decisions about HPC investments:
- Lost productivity
- Missed innovation
- Technology refresh cost
- Increasing technical debt
- Longer time to results
- Risk management
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