eBook: HPC Cost Modeling

Defining the Modern HPC Experience

Key Topics Include:

  • Traditional Cost Models
  • The Problem with Basing HPC Decisions on Core Hour Pricing
  • Cores Hours are not a Standard Unit
  • Software Utilization is not Considered
  • R&D Productivity is Ignored
  • References and Research
  • Case Study

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Introduction

CIO's are under increasing pressure to create a disciplined, business-oriented structure of accountability for the services they provide to their companies. This pressure has lead to a business-like management philosophy across most aspects of the IT landscape. However HPC remains one area which has lagged entering the modern era of IT business management.

Assessing the cost of your HPC practice is a necessary and important part of providing support to HPC stakeholders without sacrificing a disciplined approach to business service. However, assessing the cost of HPC presents several difficulties in measurement. This ebook will focus on why the historical methodology for determining cost, price per core hour is at best, incapable of providing effective cost optimization for HPC workloads. At worst, could increase your overall cost of ownership and slow innovation and productivity.

In conclusion, this ebook will present a new model for assessing the cost of an HPC practice that helps align business-level objectives to HPC investments. This model replaces cost per core hour with cost per workload to take advantage of an approach we call Full Stack Economics.

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