Stop Wasting Time

By Rich Wellner

Seth wrote:

The traffic engineers in New York think nothing of wasting two minutes of each person's time as they approach a gated toll booth. Multiply that two minutes times 12,000 people and it's a lot of hours every day, isn't it?

The truth in this is obvious, and it applies to the grid also. I've talked with folks that has hundreds or engineers each spending a third of their time managing jobs and data on their clusters. That's a lot of time that could be spent advancing their business wasted. Even if just on an expense basis, that's $3M in labor costs. And that's on the low end.

There were significant wins in moving from SMP boxes to clusters. There were significant wins in moving from clusters to grids. Now it's time to realize the next win by managing your grid effectively.