custom cluster cabinets - cost of ownership...

[alvin at Mail.Linux-Consulting.com]

hi ds10025

costs is relative to what you would like to hve...vs what
it costs to get the hardware...
	- these hard costs are NOT too negotiable...
	though yu can make specific minimum specs to keep
	your within oyur budget or grow the budge

support and operating costs are variable and can be adjusted
up or down to keep teh servers up and running..

no courses for this stuff ?? ... just a simple list of cost of ownership
analysis???

you can probably build a custom cabinet for abut $500 or so..
vs the general production cabinets at $1000 -$2000 you see... 
just deends on what you keep and what you throw out..
	majority is cosmetics and governmental requirements
	that adds costs to your cabinets

have fun
alvin
http://www.Linux-1U.net/Racks ... list of cabinet manufacturers



On Fri, 25 May 2001 ds10025 at hermes.cam.ac.uk wrote:

> Are they any Universities or colleges both in the States & UK are prepare to
> run courses in building low cost custom cluster cabinets?
> 
> Dan
> --On 24 May 2001, 13:44 -0700 alvin at Mail.Linux-Consulting.com wrote: 
> 
> > 
> > hi  Josip...
> > 
> > yes.. cost of bulding and owernship includes at least
> > an almost endless list of stuff to keey the system up...
> > - costs of parts ( off the shelf )
> > - costs of customized parts - paid to vendors
> > - costs of internal designers - to specify what they want/getting
> > - power it up and see how long to get it going smoothly/reliably
> > - saving all work to another system in case the system loses
> >   its mind and starts erasing data 
> > 	( if you have a bad sdram ... it cn erase data on disks )
> > - costs to admin the system instead of using the system for work
> > - costs of the building and space and rack
> > - costs of all the office admin and support staff...
> > .. blah .. blah ..
> > 
> > - all the hardware costs becomes a miniml fraction of the entire
> >   project costs
> > 
> > -- off the shelf... if number of servers is important and doing
> >    some predefined tasks... Transmeta cursoe seems to be a very good
> >    alternative as it supports 24 servers in 3U space..
> >