date: '2003-08-25 12:51:02' layout: post slug: quantitative-data-on-distributed-computing-economics status: publish ref: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/tr-2003-24.pdf title: Quantitative data on distributed computing economics. wordpress_id: '15' categories: Programming
Some interesting quantitative data from Jim Gray's Distributed Computing Economics:
$1
= 1GB over WAN
= 10 Tops (1012 CPU instructions)
= 9 hours of CPU time
= 1 GB disk space
= 10 M database access
= 10 TB disk bandwidth
Computation/network break-even point is
= 10k instructions per byte of network traffic
= 1 minute CPU time per MB of network traffic
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