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When I purchased my HP Z800 desktop with dual-Xeons and at the time 24GB RAM, that was due to the simple question, "Which is cheaper?":
- Cloud Computing for the next 3 months over n AWS nodes
- Many small commodity computers at home and the associated power cost
- A single large/expensive workstation at home and the associated power cost
AWS was the most expensive by far, then the many small computers, finally the workstation which was actually the highest cost item worked out the cheapest overall for the given scenario of 3 month intensive use.
It was cheaper to heavily spec a HP Z800 than to rent time on AWS.
Workstations provide really good bang for buck so long as one really needs that much bang.
Also... such calculations only work if you know that the workload is really there. No point dropping the money for a workstation just to noodle around.
- Cloud Computing for the next 3 months over n AWS nodes
Velocio
I was just thinking about AWS, esp. given the new CUDA set up they have.
That said, could be expensive long term unless you need something generated NOW!