Exactly. Compare the inter-core bandwidth and latency between a beefy multicore system and a distributed system, then use that ratio (of whatever your bottlenec

Exactly. Compare the inter-core bandwidth and latency between a beefy multicore system and a distributed system, then use that ratio (of whatever your bottleneck is) to multiply how big your comparable distributed system would be. Usually people assume they are compute bound, when in reality they are memory latency/bandwidth bound, and they neglect to do this comparison when speccing out a distributed system.