Question: Real Compute ( Q 1 - Q 5 ) Real Compute offers real - time computing services. The company owns 5 supercomputers that can be

Real Compute (Q1-Q5)
Real Compute offers real-time computing services. The company owns 5 supercomputers that can be accessed through the internet. Their customers send jobs that arrive on average every 4 minutes and the standard deviation of inter-arrival times is 4 minutes. Each job takes on average 10 minutes of one of the supercomputers. Given the timesensitive nature of the calculations, if no supercomputer is available, the job is redirected to a supercomputer of a partner company called OnComp, which charges $500 per job to Real Compute (OnComp always has supercomputer capacity available). erlang_loss_table.pdf darr
Q1. What is the demand in terms of no of jobs/hour?
Q2. What is the probability that an incoming job has to be redirected to the partner
Oncomp?
Q3. On average, how many jobs are processed by Real Compute per hour?
Q4. How much does Real Compute pay on average to OnComp (in $ per hour) per hour?
Circle the closest answer.
Q5. If Real Compute leases a new supercomputer at $300? hour to reduce payments to OnComp, what is the net savings in dollars per hour, after including the leasing cost of a new supercomputer
 Real Compute (Q1-Q5) Real Compute offers real-time computing services. The company

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