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by mikhailfranco 815 days ago
The classic rant on this subject by McSherry, et al.

Scalability! But at what COST?

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/hotos15/hotos...

  We offer a new metric for big data platforms, COST, 
  or the Configuration that Outperforms a Single Thread. 
  The COST of a given platform for a given problem 
  is the hardware configuration required before the platform 
  outperforms a competent single-threaded implementation.