September 2012
Intermediate to advanced
391 pages
12h 39m
English
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Notes
1. Taylor Clark, Starbucked (Back Bay Books/Little, Brown, 2007).
2. Joe Weinman, “As Time Goes By: The Law of Cloud Response Time,” April 12, 2011. www.joeweinman.com/Resources/Joe_Weinman_As_Time_Goes_By.pdf.
3. Ibid.
4. Om Malik, “The Storage vs. Bandwidth Debate,” GigaOM.com , June 24, 2011. http://gigaom.com/broadband/the-storage-vs-bandwidth-debate/.
5. Ilkka Tuomi, “The Lives and the Death of Moore’s Law,” First Monday (October 2002). www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_11/tuomi/#author.
6. William D. Nordhaus, “The Progress of Computing,” Yale University and the National Bureau of Economic Research, March 4, 2002, version 5.2.2, http://nordhaus.econ.yale.edu/prog_030402_all.pdf; Jonathan G. Koomey, Christian Belady, Michael Patterson, Anthony Santos, and Klaus-Dieter Lange, “Assessing Trends Over Time in Performance, Costs, and Energy Use for Servers,” August 17, 2009, www.intel.com/assets/pdf/general/servertrendsreleasecomplete-v25.pdf.
7. M. Ekman, F. Warg, and J. Nilsson, “An In-Depth Look at Computer Performance Growth,” ACM SIGARCH Computer Architecture News 33 (March 2005): 144–147.
8. Jim Gray, Distributed Computing Economics, Microsoft Research Technical Report MSR-TR-2003-24, March 2003. http://arxiv.org/ftp/cs/papers/0403/0403019.pdf.
9. Stefanie Olsen, “Sun’s John Gage Joins Al Gore in Clean-Tech Investing,” CNET News, June 9, 2008. http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9964131-7.html.
10. Ben Rooney, “The Network Is the Computer, Again,” Wall Street Journal ...
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