§“We evaluated our system on five nodes.”
-job talk from
university with 300-node cluster
§“We evaluated our Web proxy design with 10 clients on 100Mbit ethernet.”
§“Simulation results
indicate ...”
§“Memory and CPU demands on the individual nodes were not measured, but we believe will be modest.”
§“The authors ignore interrupt handling overhead in their evaluation, which likely dominates all other
costs.”
§“You have to know the right people to use the cluster.”
§“The cluster is
hard to use.”
§“<Experimental network X> runs FreeBSD
2.2.x.”
§“February’s
schedule for <Testbed Y> is…”
§“<Network Z>
is tunneled through the Internet”