Tuesday, December 16, 2008

[ Cloud Computing ] Re: Compute surface as a traded commodity?

On Tue, 16 Dec 2008 17:13:30 +0000
Roger Lewis <roger.w.lewis@mac.com> wrote:

>
> Relevant point about the cost of a barrel of oil.
>
> So what we might be seeing is Cloud providers working out their capex
> and opex costs down to the finest detail in order to increase ROI,
> however its unlikely we will see these workings in detail. Nothing to
> stop us doing our own costing exercises with matrices for all the
> variables such as:
>
> CPU speed
> FSB speed
> L2 Cache size
> Main memory size, etc.

Modulo a monkey wrench in any performance analysis: VMM vendor, version,
kernels, and configuration/options.

Tim

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