Question: Aggregated computing capacity: The SOM currently has about 100 instructors, each of whom is given a laptop computer to use in the classroom. These laptops

Aggregated computing capacity: The SOM currently has about 100 instructors, each of whom is given a laptop computer to use in the classroom. These laptops have course slides and associated software (access, excel, etc.) used during a lecture. A recent proposal is advocating for hosting these slides and software on a central computer. According to this proposal, the instructors will use a keyboard and a computer screen in the classroom to connect to the central computer to project their slides and to use the software. Each of the laptops currently has 1.8 GHz processing capacity and 75 GB storage capacity. Suppose that if 100 laptops are connected appropriately (with an efficient parallel processing architecture) the total processing capacity will become 180 GHz while the total storage capacity becomes 7500 GB. First note that the capacity demanded by each instructor is random. Then provide a verbal argument for why the central computer can serve the instructors as well as 100 laptops even it has less capacity than 180 GHz and 7500 GB. Use the concept that extreme values cancel each other in aggregation.

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