Up front capital invested can range from as low as $500 for a small, shallow pond aeration system to as much as $8,000 or more for a larger system or a solar aerator.Operating cost is dependent on the number of amps needed to power an electric motor multiplied by the electricity cost in your area.ome electric aerators might run for 2-3 years without any major issues and others might run 5-7 years or longer. The table below is based on a set of assumptions that is fairly representative of actual costs for a 1 to 2 acre pond or small lake.
Surface Hub costs less than half that, and is in essence a collaborative center in a box. Costs for a conference room that would accommodate the lower-end unit are about $6,500 to $27,000, again not including furniture, installation, service, and ongoing management costs, so a similar savings can be had there as well.
Finally, RPis are cheap! The RPi platform has to be one of the cheapest ways to create a cluster of 32 nodes. The cost for an RPi with an 8GB SD card is ~$45. For comparison, each node in the Onyx cluster was somewhere between $1,000 and $1,500.So, for near the price of one PC-based node, we can create a 32 node Raspberry Pi cluster!.his modest, by supercomputer standards, currently has 32 nodes, each of which has a 3.1GHz Intel Xeon E3-1225 quad-core processor and 8GBs of RAM. A Beowulf cluster is simply a collection of inexpensive commercial off the shelf (COTS) computers networked together running Linux and parallel processing software.