CougTek
Hairy Aussie
I read that here, which is based on this message.
Let's say that they pay their electricity 8¢/KWh, which I assume is a pretty average number (our company pays less than 6¢ per KW/h). In order to climb to 20000$, you have, according to my calculations, to pump a bit more than 28KW per hour, sustained, for an entire year. To put things in perspective, TWO fully filled HP BL c7000, with the most power-hungry processors you can place in them, each with 256MB of fast RAM, plus two manageable switchs and all needed remote administration modules AND an 80-disk SAN (80!), all working at an unrealistically high load, would pump roughly 14KW/h.
So, what the Hell are they using to maintain such a high electrical load, no idea. If I was the one willing to pay their electrical bill, I would first ask them to sit down with me in order to look what can be done to lower their electrically consumption. It could probably be done by modernising some of their equipment and through a wider use of virtualization. I mean, how many machines or virtual machines does one really need in order to develop and maintain an operating system? Quite a few, I'm sure, but enough to pump an average of 28KW, really?
Let's say that they pay their electricity 8¢/KWh, which I assume is a pretty average number (our company pays less than 6¢ per KW/h). In order to climb to 20000$, you have, according to my calculations, to pump a bit more than 28KW per hour, sustained, for an entire year. To put things in perspective, TWO fully filled HP BL c7000, with the most power-hungry processors you can place in them, each with 256MB of fast RAM, plus two manageable switchs and all needed remote administration modules AND an 80-disk SAN (80!), all working at an unrealistically high load, would pump roughly 14KW/h.
So, what the Hell are they using to maintain such a high electrical load, no idea. If I was the one willing to pay their electrical bill, I would first ask them to sit down with me in order to look what can be done to lower their electrically consumption. It could probably be done by modernising some of their equipment and through a wider use of virtualization. I mean, how many machines or virtual machines does one really need in order to develop and maintain an operating system? Quite a few, I'm sure, but enough to pump an average of 28KW, really?
