topic Re: bang per buck in Operating System - HP-UX

bang per buck

steven chang_1 — Sun, 12 Dec 2004 20:25:42 GMT

hi :

What is "bang per buck"?

steven

Re: bang per buck

Steven E. Protter — Sun, 12 Dec 2004 20:30:46 GMT

Loosely, bang for buck in it terms is how much processing power you get for a dollar expended.

Or more loosely how much computer you get for a dollar or unit of currency expended.

In PA-RISC to Intel comparisions, its common to say you get more "bang for your buck" More processing power for the same money. PA-RISC chips have less internal instructions so you get more work done with less clock cycles.

If I spend $10,000 on a server, and have two choices, one that will process 1.5 million records an hour another 1.2 million, i get more bang for my buck by buying the faster one.

My numeric examples are arbitrary, but hopefully I've made a point. If not, others will.

:-)

SEP

Re: bang per buck

A. Clay Stephenson — Sun, 12 Dec 2004 20:39:10 GMT

Number of gunshots required to kill a male deer.

The is slang for (power/goodness/throughput/speed) per dollar spent (1 USD = 1 "buck")

So a very fast, powerful but inexpensive machine is a good bang for the buck.

Re: bang per buck

Sridhar Bhaskarla — Sun, 12 Dec 2004 20:44:06 GMT

Steven,

Strange question.

"Biggest bang per buck" is used when we try to compare different items. For ex., if you look at http://tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_perf_results.asp

in 3000GB Results section, you will find that HP Integrity Superdome can yield 45,247 trasactions per Hour costing $109 per hour. Whereas you can see that HP Proliant costs $93 but will do only 22,387 transactions.

So, HP Integrity superdome gives you the biggest bang per buck in that category.

-Sri

Re: bang per buck

steven chang_1 — Sun, 12 Dec 2004 20:46:02 GMT

hi,
Thank you all. Kind of IT cost evaluation. I get this from mysql document.Anyway, thank you!!

steven chang