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**h0ldem** · 12-02-2008, 08:32 PM

ioan is certainly correct in that in such a complex system the software, either a licence or custom made is going to be by far the major cost in the equation, that and paying the experts you need to run the system. The actual hardware they are likely to use is commodity boxes, which in the scheme of things are very cheap.

Don't get me wrong, if they buy the SW (this may or not be the case, I have no ideea) than it's certainly not more expensive than the computational power they need (and which they need to change or heavily upgrade every 2 years at least).
If they do develop they own SW (it's not at all out of question even if complicated) than they need to pay lots of money for those who do it, but certainly they will have a SW where they can do whatever they want, knowing every little bit of it and being able to develop it further and further.

What I was trying to say is that with today's technology being available to every one of them, it is rather the SW that will make the difference, and if they got the better mathematicians, engineers and programmers than the advantage they can get over the competition is way bigger than the one they get buying better HW. So IMO CFD software is more important than HW and allows for higher gains in a strictly limited and controlled environment.

You are also right about the HW being cheaper by the day as it is highly standardized and thus even if some of it needs to be adapted or personalized it still isn't as difficult and expensive as as 10 years ago.

In the end the people and the knowledge will be most expensive of all.

I hope I managed to give some sense to what I was trying to say.

12-02-2008, 08:32 PM	#11
h0ldem Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 645 Senior Member	ioan is certainly correct in that in such a complex system the software, either a licence or custom made is going to be by far the major cost in the equation, that and paying the experts you need to run the system. The actual hardware they are likely to use is commodity boxes, which in the scheme of things are very cheap. Don't get me wrong, if they buy the SW (this may or not be the case, I have no ideea) than it's certainly not more expensive than the computational power they need (and which they need to change or heavily upgrade every 2 years at least). If they do develop they own SW (it's not at all out of question even if complicated) than they need to pay lots of money for those who do it, but certainly they will have a SW where they can do whatever they want, knowing every little bit of it and being able to develop it further and further. What I was trying to say is that with today's technology being available to every one of them, it is rather the SW that will make the difference, and if they got the better mathematicians, engineers and programmers than the advantage they can get over the competition is way bigger than the one they get buying better HW. So IMO CFD software is more important than HW and allows for higher gains in a strictly limited and controlled environment. You are also right about the HW being cheaper by the day as it is highly standardized and thus even if some of it needs to be adapted or personalized it still isn't as difficult and expensive as as 10 years ago. In the end the people and the knowledge will be most expensive of all. I hope I managed to give some sense to what I was trying to say.
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