The Real Cost of a CPU Hour

  • Authors:
  • Edward Walker

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Texas at Austin

  • Venue:
  • Computer
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

IT organizations can now outsource computer hardware by leasing CPU time through cloud computing services. A proposed modeling tool can quantitatively compare the cost of leasing CPU time from these online services to that of purchasing and using a server cluster of equivalent capability.