1. Convergence 2010
2/25/2019
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2. Economics of Cloud Computing
Convergence 2010
2/25/2019
Economics of Cloud Computing
North Dakota State University
Bonnie K. Klamm
Joe Latimer
Tyler Russell
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3. Convergence 2010
2/25/2019
The Problem
How to support an advanced server class where each student will to configure several practice servers?
Possible solutions
Individual PCs configured as servers
Large tower server farm
Rack mounted servers
Cloud Computing
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4. The Goal Provide each student with Calculations based on
Convergence 2010
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The Goal
Provide each student with
4 servers (physical or virtual)
4 GB RAM per server
100 GB HD per server
Calculations based on
20 students per class
2 classes per year
3 year equipment refresh
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5. Individual PCs (used) Available through campus IT cascade program
Dell Optiplex 745
Pentium Core 2 Duo 1.86 GHz
8GB RAM / HD 160 GB
$525 each
Cost per student $175.00
2 PCs per student w/ 2 Virtual Machines per PC

6. Individual PCs (new) Dell Optiplex 960 $2,372 each
Core 2 Duo 3.0 GHz
16 GB RAM / 250 GB HD
$2,372 each
Cost per student $ 395
1 PC per student w/ 4 Virtual Machines per PC

7. Tower Server Dell PowerEdge T410 4 @ $19,685 each
2 X Quad Core Xeon E Ghz
128 GB RAM / 6 TB HD
$19,685 each
Cost per student $ 656
4 Virtual Machines per Student

8. Rack Server Dell PoweEdge R900 2 @ $41,254 each Cost per student $ 688
4 X 6 Core Opteron Ghz
256 GB RAM / 4 TB HD
$41,254 each
Cost per student $ 688
4 Virtual Machines per Student

9. Cloud Computing (Amazon EC2)
Small Instance
1 EC2 Compute Unit
1.7 GB RAM / 160 GB HD
32 bit
$0.12 per hour
Large Instance
4 EC2 Compute Units
7.5 GB RAM / 850 GB HD
64 bit
$0.48 per hour

10. Cloud Computing (Amazon EC2)
Extra Large Instance
4 EC2 Compute Unit
15 GB RAM / 1.7 TB HD
64 bit
$0.96 per hour
EC2 Compute Unit = 1.2 GHz 2007 Xeon
aws.amazon.com/ec2

11. Estimated Cloud Cost Small Instance Large Instance
$46 per student
4 Cloud instances per student
Only 1.7 GB RAM per instance
Large Instance
$92 per student
2 Cloud instance per student
Extra Large Instance
1 Cloud instance per student
Assumes 96 hours (16 weeks X 6 hrs/wk)

12. Summary Option Cost per Student RAM per Server PCs old $175 4.0
PCs new
$395
Tower Server
$656
6.4
Rack Server
$688
Cloud Small
$ 46
1.7
Cloud Large
$ 92
1.9
Cloud XL
3.8

13. Convergence 2010
2/25/2019
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