Why?
“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.”
“Resource control remains an open problem.”