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A lot of companies are donating computing power for COVID-19 research, so it's possible they have a deal of some kind worked out with Amazon. > That is my bigg
by zhdc1 5y ago
A lot of companies are donating computing power for COVID-19 research, so it's possible they have a deal of some kind worked out with Amazon.
> That is my biggest hurdle working at a university right now.
We took the opposite approach and assembled our own equipment, which we self host and manage. The cost savings we're significant, and what we lose doing admin and maintenance is saved by having the flexibility and freedom to code and run what we want, when we want.
- dkdk8283 5y agoOnprem doesn’t get a lot of love these days but it’s significantly cheaper.
- pjdesno 5y agoIf you've got the data center for it. Otherwise it's great until you have to upgrade your AC, and punch a hole in the side of the building to get the new one brought in on a crane :-)
- dkdk8283 5y agoI built and ran a 1mw data center for about 7 years, it can be a headache but you can be ahead of the curve if you buy a DC that’s being vacated by someone moving to the cloud. I paid 400k to buy about 4m worth of equipment from the previous tenant. UPS, STS, busbar distribution, 3n paralleling generators and 20,000 gallons of diesel.