Hi Ray,
with edu discount it's around 600 euro/ccu that makes 76000 euro just for the Virtual workstation and 128 users.
https://www.scan.co.uk/search.aspx?q=nvidia+grid+2.0
I will buy some K1, I need just to make basic multimedia stuff work and see if the cards are working with blast extreme that's a plus.
In a couple of years maybe AMD will be ready for prime time, and we will have a little bit of competition