Title
Distributed Computing Economics : lecture by Jim Gray
Catalog Number
102703059
Type
Moving Image
Description
From abstract: "The paper Distributed Computing Economics considers the relative costs of computing resources and the implications this has for distributed system design. Today there is rough price parity between (1) one database access, (2) ten bytes of network traffic, (3) 100,000 instructions, (4) 10 bytes of disk storage, and (5) a megabyte of disk bandwidth. This has implications for how one structures Internet-scale distributed computing: one puts computing as close to the data as possible in order to avoid expensive network traffic. If there is time, the talk will then cover what the architecture we are evolving for the World-Wide Telescope -- a federation of the worlds' astronomy data as a collection of web services accessed via portals."
Date
2003-09-18
Credits
Gray, Jim (speaker)
Publisher
Xerox PARC
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, CA, US
Duration
01:54:41
Format
DVCAM
Category
Lecture
Series Title
SDForum