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Password Cracking with 8x Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti GPUs

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as with most really high electrical loads, if you can operate it remotely, do so. There's places in North America near major hydroelectric dams with electricity that costs $0.03 to $0.045 per kWh. Running something like this and the cooling needed for a 3kW thermal load on California electrical prices is a good way to burn money.

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as with most really high electrical loads, if you can operate it remotely, do so. There's places in North America near major hydroelectric dams with electricity that costs $0.03 to $0.045 per kWh. Running something like this and the cooling needed for a 3kW thermal load on California electrical prices is a good way to burn money.

Someone password cracking with 8 GTX 1080's isn't likely worried about the electricity costs associated with said cracking.

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as with most really high electrical loads, if you can operate it remotely, do so. There's places in North America near major hydroelectric dams with electricity that costs $0.03 to $0.045 per kWh. Running something like this and the cooling needed for a 3kW thermal load on California electrical prices is a good way to burn money.

Quebec and Manitoba have rates as low as 0.03$CAD/kWh (~0.023 $USD), or about 0.07$USD/hr for this gpgpu system.

Servethehome is including colocation rental costs (which also means colocation power cost, typically 3x utility markup) in their cost-per-hour estimate here.

Re: Password Cracking with 8x Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti GPUs

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as with most really high electrical loads, if you can operate it remotely, do so. There's places in North America near major hydroelectric dams with electricity that costs $0.03 to $0.045 per kWh. Running something like this and the cooling needed for a 3kW thermal load on California electrical prices is a good way to burn money.

Someone password cracking with 8 GTX 1080's isn't likely worried about the electricity costs associated with said cracking.

It was mentioned in the article though.

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as with most really high electrical loads, if you can operate it remotely, do so. There's places in North America near major hydroelectric dams with electricity that costs $0.03 to $0.045 per kWh. Running something like this and the cooling needed for a 3kW thermal load on California electrical prices is a good way to burn money.

Someone password cracking with 8 GTX 1080's isn't likely worried about the electricity costs associated with said cracking.

true, but people use similar hardware configurations for all sorts of things. On a larger scale if you have ten systems each of which draws 3.2kW as measured from a watt meter on the AC side of their power supplies, you want to consider the operating costs as a significant part of the budget.

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as with most really high electrical loads, if you can operate it remotely, do so. There's places in North America near major hydroelectric dams with electricity that costs $0.03 to $0.045 per kWh. Running something like this and the cooling needed for a 3kW thermal load on California electrical prices is a good way to burn money.

Quebec and Manitoba have rates as low as 0.03$CAD/kWh (~0.023 $USD), or about 0.07$USD/hr for this gpgpu system. Servethehome is including colocation rental costs (which also means colocation power cost, typically 3x utility markup) in their cost-per-hour estimate here.

quebec hydro is a huge reason for the location of the OVH datacenter there. margins are thin in the massive bulk hosting/colo/dedicated server business.

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/01/17/ovhs-...

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Quebec and Manitoba have rates as low as 0.03$CAD/kWh (~0.023 $USD), or about 0.07$USD/hr for this gpgpu system. Servethehome is including colocation rental costs (which also means colocation power cost, typically 3x utility markup) in their cost-per-hour estimate here.

quebec hydro is a huge reason for the location of the OVH datacenter there. margins are thin in the massive bulk hosting/colo/dedicated server business. http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/01/17/ovhs-...

99% of the electricity in Quebec is from hydroelectric dams. This is how the costs are kept so low, and you don't really have to worry about resulting greenhouse gas emissions.
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