Filecoin Sealing Costs By Op

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L
1	Useful Life	2
2	Electricty Rate	$0.09
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4	Example Sealing Rig				Amortized Capex	Power/Unit (w)
5	Component	Spec	Cost	Unit Cost	Hourly Cost/Unit	Power (watts)
6	CPU	32-core e.g. EPYC 7543	$4,500	$141	$0.0080	7.0
7	Memory	16 x 64GB	$5,120	$5	$0.0003	0.2
8	NVMe	5 x 3.4TB	$2,600	$153	$0.0087
9	GPU	2 Nvidia 2080Ti	$2,000	$1,000	$0.0571	250.0
10	Misc.	Chassis, HDD, Networking, Etc.	$5,500	$5,500	$0.3139
11	Total		$19,720
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13	Sealing Capacity	15 Sectors x 4/day x 32GB	1920
14	Capex/TB/Day		$10,271
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16								Capex			OpEx
17	Sealing Process	Core operation	Compute	Storage	Memory (GB)	I/O	Time (h)	Compute Cost	Memory Cost	Everything Else	Power	Total
18	PC1	SHA Hashing for DRG	2 CPU Cores	384GB	64GB	2 GB/s	4	$0.0642	$0.0731	$0.0860	$0.0105	$0.2338
19	PC2	Poseidon Hashing for Merkle tree	1 GPU				0.25	$0.0143		$0.0807	$0.0056	$0.1006
20	C1	NA						\
21	C2	MSM and NTT for SNARK creation	1 GPU				0.25	$0.0143		$0.0807	$0.0056	$0.1006
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23										Total Cost/32 GB		$0.43
24										Total Cost/TB		$13.92
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27	Optimization #	Opportunities for Cost Reduction	Bench	Who?
28	1	Replace DDR with NVMe for PC1	PC1	NVMe Mfg.
29	2	Improve SHA Throughput	PC1	CPU + FPGA Mfg.
30	3	Accelerate Merkle tree	PC2	GPU/FPGA Mfg.
31	4	Accelerate SNARK	C2	GPU/FPGA Mfg.
32	5	Cost Optimization e.g. GPU vs. FPGA, different system configurations, etc.	NA	All + OEMs
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34		Benchmark Instructions
35		RUST_LOG=trace FIL_PROOFS_USE_MULTICORE_SDR=1 FIL_PROOFS_USE_GPU_COLUMN_BUILDER=1 FIL_PROOFS_USE_GPU_TREE_BUILDER=1 FIL_PROOFS_VERIFY_CACHE=0 FIL_PROOFS_MAXIMIZE_CACHING=1 RUSTFLAGS="-C target-cpu=native" cargo run --release --features cuda --bin benchy -- window-post --size 32GiB --cache ./cache_benchy_run_32g 2>&1\|tee large_32G_4.log
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