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== Energy Consumption == | == Energy Consumption == | ||
Recent tests comparing Borg3 with AWS , rendering 30 Frames of a small Blender Scene with Blender 2.76 and maxing out the processors: | |||
===AWS=== | |||
* $0.520 per On Demand Linux c1.xlarge Instance Hour at 12 hours | |||
* Cost is roughly £4.60 at current exchange | |||
* Spot instances are possible with Brenda or similar - at $0.07 the cost would be roughly 53p | |||
===Borg3=== | |||
* £0.12p per Kilowatt Hour | |||
* With all 16 Cores operating at 100% Borg was drawing 560Watts | |||
* To render the same scene took 206minutes | |||
* Total Cost 23p | |||
The main issue of course - is it worth spending the time linking them all or just keeping one with some method of spinning it up and down? | |||
Borg (being a server) could add substantially to our electricity costs. To help this we can offset some of it by the retiring of other machines in the space. It has also been agreed that if it takes up more than 275W regularly then a decision about Borgs future will have to be made. If it goes over 300W we will have to re-think our strategy. These figures are a maximum and equate to about £27 per month in electricity costs. The power consumption will be regularly measured and anyone is welcome to report power consumption levels. | Borg (being a server) could add substantially to our electricity costs. To help this we can offset some of it by the retiring of other machines in the space. It has also been agreed that if it takes up more than 275W regularly then a decision about Borgs future will have to be made. If it goes over 300W we will have to re-think our strategy. These figures are a maximum and equate to about £27 per month in electricity costs. The power consumption will be regularly measured and anyone is welcome to report power consumption levels. | ||
