The paper is just excellent and at just 5 pages, including about one page of references, it's well worth the time to read. If you do any amount of reading on pa

The paper is just excellent and at just 5 pages, including about one page of references, it's well worth the time to read. If you do any amount of reading on parallel and distributed computing, then you've probably read something where at least of the mentioned "sins" came to mind. I see #1, #2, and #5 so often that I nearly expect them. Though it's not really "cloudy" per se, I think there's an eighth deadly sin, "Ignoring Architecture and Infrastructure." If you want to get repeatable and comparable results, the system and network architecture, as well as the supporting infrastructure, can make a huge difference.