CS553 Homework #4: Understanding The Cost of Cloud Computing

CS553 Homework #4
Understanding the Cost of Cloud Computing

Instructions:
● Assigned date: Monday March 23rd, 2020
● Due date: 11:59PM on Monday April 10th, 2020
● Maximum Points: 100%
● This homework can be done in groups up to 3 students
● Please post your questions to the Piazza forum
● Only a softcopy submission is required; it will automatically be collected through GIT after the
deadline; email confirmation will be sent to your HAWK email address
● Late submission will be penalized at 10% per day; an email to the TA with the subject “CS553:
late homework submission” must be sent
1. Introduction
You are hired by a startup company who is considering to use cloud computing instead of building its own
infrastructure. There is concensus that a cloud computing software stack at the layer of IaaS will be used, but its
not clear whether the computing resources should be rented from a public cloud on-demand, or whether a private
cloud should be purchased. You are tasked to find the cost breakdown of a private cloud, and compare that to
what Amazon would charge. You can find many instance types defined at http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-
types/, and their prices are set at http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/pricing/. For pricing purposes, please stick to Linux
on-demand pricing.
Since you have to estimate the cost of the hardware when building a private cloud, you can use hardware prices
found at ThinkMate website (https://www.thinkmate.com) as good sources for server hardware. You must include
a printout of your shoping cart in your final writeup report for this assignment; include this as an appendix at the
end of your report.
You are to estimate the cost of different configurations for 3 different set of requirements:
· Configuration 1: Hadoop/Spark Cluster with 256K-cores, 2PB memory, 400PB HDD, and 25Gb/s Ethernet
Fat-Tree network (each VM should be equivalent to the d2.8xlarge instance); in addition to the compute
resources, a 800PB distributed storage shared across the entire cloud should be procured, with enough
capacity for 800GB/sec throughput (for pricing comparison, see S3)
· Configuration 2: Support 1M virtual machines (VM) where each VM requires 2-core, 16GB RAM, 75GB
NVMe storage, and 10Gb/s Fat-Tree network (each VM should be equivalent to the r5d.large instances);
in addition to the compute resources, a 10PB distributed storage shared across the entire cloud should be
procured, with enough capacity for 100GB/sec throughput (for pricing comparison, see S3)
· Configuration 3: Support deep learning with 1 exaflop of double precision performance (hint: each VM
should be equivalent to p3.16xlarge instances; you will want to use the NVIDIA V100 GPUs (8 GPUs per
node), and allocate 8-cores per GPU (64-cores per node) with 8GB of memory per core (512GB per node);
the network to use is at least 3Gb/s per GPU (25Gb/s should work), and should be organized in a Fat-Tree
network; in addition to the compute resources, a 1PB distributed storage shared across the entire cloud
should be procured, with enough capacity for 10GB/sec throughput (for pricing comparison, see S3)
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2. What you will submit?
Your deliverables for this project are to be written in a report, which will include the following:
· Report: A written document (typed, named hw4-report.pdf) describing your answers to the above
questions.
· Compare the costs of the 3 different configurations between the public cloud (Amazon AWS) and the
private cloud
o you may assume a 5 year amortization cost
o you will have to factor in things other than hardware, such as cooling, power, administration
costs, network infrastructure (e.g. switches); you can assume 1 system administrator is needed
for every 1000 servers
o show your data in three different tables with the costs of each of the 3 configurations, broken
down by components (e.g. servers, network switches, cables, racks, cooling, power,
administration, etc)
o summarize your data in a 4th table, comparing the public cloud cost to the private cloud cost
· Explain in words if it is better to rent or buy. If it is better to buy, what utilization must you maintain over
the 5 year lifetime of the private cloud in order to break even on the investment?
· Include your shopping cart of the 3 configurations. Your submission should be a single large PDF file,
starting with your report, and followed by the shopping carts.
Table 1: Table summarizing each of the three configurations; please include 1 table per configuration, for a total of 3 tables
Description Price per Item Quantity Total Price

Compute
Servers
Network
Switches
Network Cables
Racks
Storage Servers
Electric Power
Cooling
Administration
TOTAL N/A N/A N/A
Table 2: Summary table comparing the 3 configurations between the public and private cloud; your cost of power, cooling, and administration should be
to cover 5 years of costs
Configuration 1 Configuration 2 Configuration 3

Public Cloud (including EC2
and S3) Cost over 5 years,
24/7 operation, with 100%
usage
Private Cloud cost over 5
years, 24/7 operation, with
100% usage
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What utilization must be
achieved with the private
cloud to make the private
cloud option more attractive
than the public cloud?
Submit code/report through GIT. If you cannot access your repository contact the TAs. You can
find a git cheat sheet here: https://www.git-tower.com/blog/git-cheat-sheet/
Grades for late programs will be lowered 10% per day late.
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