Yep, that's also my understanding. You sum it up very well.
--jens
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Subject: Re: FW: storage units
As I understand this this does not effect the Glue work on any thing
other than the presentation of the data in the final web pages. We
should all carry on as before unless we provide the final output for the
Grid monitoring web pages.
Is this how you all feel about this?
Regards
Owen
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 11:35:37 +0100
"Jensen, J (Jens)" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> FYI. GDB want us to use "marketing" units :-) in accounting.
>
> -j
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Coles, J (Jeremy) [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 12 September 2006 11:02
> To: GridPP DTeam
> Subject: FW: storage units
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kors Bos [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 11 September 2006 18:25
> To: 'GDB'
> Subject: storage units
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> after a discussion in the GDB last Wednesday at BNL we decided to use
> decimal units for disk space. So a KiloByte is 1000 Bytes en a
> MegaByte is 1000 KiloBytes etc. The names for Kilo- Mega- Giga- Tera-
> etc. are then correctly used and we don't have to start using names
> like GeBi- and TeBi- which refer to units in powers of 2. We now have
> to make sure that all numbers quoted in the tables with resource
> pledges are indeed in decimal units. Moreover accounting figures also
> have to follow this standard. Be aware that some Unix commands return
> binary values.
>
> Kors
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