Why?
l “We evaluated our system on five nodes.”
  -job talk from university with 300-node cluster
l “We evaluated our Web proxy design with 10
clients on 100Mbit ethernet.”
l “Simulation results indicate ...”
l “Memory and CPU demands on the individual nodes
were not measured, but we believe will be
modest.”
l “The authors ignore interrupt handling overhead in
their evaluation, which likely dominates all other
costs.”
l “Resource control remains an open problem.”