It looks obvious when you write it like that but I think many people are surprised by just how much slower distributed computations can be compared to non dist

It looks obvious when you write it like that but I think many people are surprised by just how much slower distributed computations can be compared to non distributed systems. Eg the COST paper [1] [1] https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/hotos15/hotos15-paper-mcsherry.pdf https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/hotos15/hotos...