Jim Gray from '06: Distributed Computing Economics (how to allocate computing resources) (dslab.epfl.ch) 8 points by wmorein 18y ago ↗ HN
[–] pongle 18y ago ↗ Actually this article was published in March 2003 as a Microsoft Technical Report: http://research.microsoft.com/research/pubs/view.aspx?tr_id=...Jim Gray giving a presentation on the paper here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9016327917737413988&...Definitely an interesting paper, I wonder how the number have changed in the last 5 years.
[–] gaius 18y ago ↗ That would imply an operations staff of more than two thousand people to operate Google - nearly ten times the size of the company.Aren't there like 20,000 of them now?
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 24.2 ms ] threadJim Gray giving a presentation on the paper here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9016327917737413988&...
Definitely an interesting paper, I wonder how the number have changed in the last 5 years.
Aren't there like 20,000 of them now?