Table 2

Cost structure used to estimate cost rate for local compute cluster CPUs

Category

Cost year 1

Cost year 2

Cost year 3

Total cost over 3 years

Average cost per year

Average cost per hour

Hardware and support

$56,667

$56,667

$56,667

$170,000

$56,667

Software licensing

$5,000

$5,000

$5,000

$15,000

$5,000

Server hosting

$23,424

$25,766

$28,343

$77,533

$25,844

Personnel

$43,500

$45,675

$47,959

$137,134

$45,711

Entire cluster

$15.21

Per CPU @240 CPUs

$0.06

Estimates are based on real-world costs associated with the local compute cluster used as the basis for comparison in this study. A per-CPU/per-hour cost was used as the basis for comparison with the cloud-based system.

Dudley et al. Genome Medicine 2010 2:51   doi:10.1186/gm172