Hello all,
I have a serverfarm with 352 nodes / 5632 cores / 11264 threads. This machine is running with Linux and is going to grow to 480 nodes in next weeks. I poked around and studied the prices of online rendering services and found out that I can offer much better prices.
A typical low price offer (which I found on the net) would be like
number_of_cores x 0.015$ x Ghz / hour
Which is quite expensive in my eyes. With such an offer my machine would be at 219.648$ / hour which is a lot!
My offer would be 50% less
number_of_cores x 0.0075$ x Ghz / hour
= 5632 x 0.0075 x 2.6 / hour
= 109.824$
About me: I must say that I'm not a 3D-guy, but coming from the numerical data analysis. Linux/BSD and C++ are my favourites.