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A comment on Little’s Law, Scalability and Fault Tolerance: The OS is your bottleneck.

Re:Little’s Law, Scalability and Fault Tolerance: The OS is ... by twic on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @02:27PM (#7179703)
Parallel Universe are churning out some seriously impressive software [0]. How many programmer-hours have gone into Quasar and its supporting cast so far?

[0] Caveat: impressive in terms of features; i don't have any information about the quality of the implementation

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Re:Little’s Law, Scalability and Fault Tolerance: The OS is ... by pron on Tuesday February 04, 2014 @02:40PM (#7179786)
Quasar developer here: I'd guess about 1 man-year on Quasar+Pulsar, a similar amount on Galaxy, and much more than that on SpaceBase. Comsat was easy once Quasar was in place.
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