Dan's_Quotes_on_Scaling - david-macmahon/wiki_convert_test GitHub Wiki

CASPER Workshop 2009

• "The switches are free"
• "Every three years just throw it all away."
• "The cost of a switch is zero."

CASPER Workshop 2010

• "A Virtex 7 FPGA will cost $3 in 2020" (Kees Vissers: "You can place your orders with Dan.")
• "At SKA sizes, the cost of a switch is negative"
• "Throw it away"
• "It [switch power consumption] scales linearly, I mean, you look at these boxes, they get bigger with more ports"

ATA, SETI, and Real Time DSP meeting

• "With SKA you just keep waiting, eventually the cost of the correlator is 0"

Discussing Large Projects

• Regarding VEGAS, "When you build these things that cost a million dollars it's a good idea to have a meeting to make sure you don't screw up"

• Regarding the 500 meter FAST Telescope, "You know, this is kind of a big project"

• Regarding SERENDIP VI
  • "I don't like to ship a system that's completely working and running perfectly..."
  • "I don't care about packet loss." in reference to 10 GbE links from the F Engines to the network switch and Compute Engines. 2014jan27.
  • Regarding commensal observing: "...somehow we’re going to have to remember that certain data is crap."

Taiwan 2011

• "The longer you wait, the cheaper it gets."
• "Throw away your correlator."
• (On your five year old correlator) "Consider it garbage."