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

If a few large providers publish price points and their specs, then they
can act as a reference. The value of CPU, FSB speed, cache, etc depends
on the application. So long as providers publish their technical specs
then we can assess what the "real value" is to the application based on
it's needs.

Rick

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[mailto:cloud-computing@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Tim Freeman
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Subject: [ 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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