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Buying your own fleet of dedicated servers seems like a smart move in the short term, but then five years from now you’ll get someone on the team insisting that
by snorkel 4y ago
Buying your own fleet of dedicated servers seems like a smart move in the short term, but then five years from now you’ll get someone on the team insisting that they need the latest greatest GPU to run their jobs. Cloud providers give you the option of using newer chipsets without having to re-purchase your entire server fleet every five years.
- lebovic 4y agoIn HPC land, most hardware is amortized over five years and then replaced! If you keep your service in life for five years at high utilization, you're doing great. For example, the Blue Waters supercomputer at UIUC was originally expected to last five years, although they kept it in service for nine; it was considered a success: https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/historic-blue-waters-supercomputer-ceasing-operations/ https://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/historic-blue-waters-supercomp...