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Distributed Computing Economics

Posted by simoniker on from the get-your-flops-cheap dept.

machaut writes "In a ClusterComputing.org article, Jim Gray, director of Microsoft's Bay Area Research Lab, provides an interesting economic analysis for building distributed systems. When do you choose a grid over a cluster or a supercomputer? When does it pay off to move a task to the data vs moving the data to the task? He takes current hardware and networking costs into account to answer those questions."

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  1. frist post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    FOR WESLEY

  2. WWGS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What would Goatse say?

    Oh, First Post!

  3. First! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    First Mutha Fuckas! Eat my sheet!

  4. oh really? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    "In a ClusterComputing.org article, Jim Gray, director of Microsoft's Bay Area Research Lab, provides an interesting economic analysis for building distributed systems. When do you choose a grid over a cluster or a supercomputer? When when does it pay off to move a task to the data vs moving the data to the task? He takes current hardware and networking costs into account to answer those questions."

    when when does it make sense to proofread your own copy before hitting 'submit'?

    when when does it make sense to actually be an *editor* when choosing stories for /.?

    when when when when when when ?

  5. Re:Warning: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    shut the fuck up you stupid son of a bitch. I'll kick your mother in the cunt until she bleeds all over the floor and then I'll rape her brused bloodied face while her tears stream across my nuts, asshole.