Unless you have all the details and you have compared the price of both options, you don't know that it's cheaper.
That seems unlikely to me, for an entity of the size of UT Austin. They probably have enough jobs to run to keep their clusters busy.
That seems unlikely to me, for an entity of the size of UT Austin. They probably have enough jobs to run to keep their clusters busy.
AKA its AWS for HPC.
Also AFAIK, that has been the model at TACC for at least a decade, maybe longer.