Comment Re:$1279 per hour (Score 1) 59
It More like a SH!t burger!
Wow! The performance is not impressive at all, yet the money there making is. Because the servers they are using are probably IBM POWER7. The article states that last jun 7,000 cores on EC2 was capable of ranking at 232 on the Top 500 list of super computers with a performance of 41.82 Teraflops. So looking over the list and comparing how a 7,000 cores of POWER7 system will do. We see at rank 50 a 6,912 cores of POWER7 with a performance of 212.12 Teraflops. Now lets up the cores to 30,000, so (30/7=4.28571) now 4.28571*41.82 = 179.22857 Teraflops for an INTEL i7 solution, and (30/6.9 = 4.34783) now 4.34783 * 212.12 = 922.2617 Teraflops to an IBM POWER7 solution. Wow! IBM's POWER7 has over 5 times the performance of INTEL's i7. So the cost of
30,000 POWER7 cores would be (30,000/16 = 1,875) which equates to 1,875 PS702 Blade severs each at a cost of $16,544.00 so the total cost would be (1,875 * $16,544.00 = $30,020,000.00) roughly 30 million and the cost of 30,000 INTEL i7 would be (30,000/12 = 2,500) so 2,500 HP Proliant BL2x220 blade server would cost (2,500 * $15,059 = $37,647,50) roughly $37 million. Now if AMAZON charges $1,279 per hour for 179.22857 Teraflops of 30,000 cores of i7 prcessors, then 30,000 cores of POWER7 would be 922.2617 Teraflops an increase in performance by a factor of (922.2617/179.22857 = 5.14573) so 5 time the performance 5 time the profit. Profit would be (5 * $1,279.00 = $6,395.00) so $6,395.00 * 24 hours * 365 days = $56,020,200.00 million using IBM's POWER7 or ($56,020,200.00 / 5.14573 = $10,886,735.2154) about $11 million using INTEL's i7 processors. So in conclusion you'll pay more for INTEL's i7 products and they're 5 times slower then IBM's POWER7. Just goes to show how many idiots there are in IT.