The real cost of a CPU hour

Computer

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 35-41

  Walker, Edward ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud computing; Computers and society; Cooling; Data mining; E commerce; Economics; Equations; Investments; Management of computing and information systems; Mathematical model; Probability density function; Servers

Indexed keywords

EID: 67649429915     PISSN: 00189162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MC.2009.135     Document Type: Article

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