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
-----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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