The notions of Big O and single-algorithm performance on a single CPU must be extended in order to understand performance of programs on more complex computer architectures. We need to also account for:

• Disk access time

• Network bandwidth and data communication time

• Coordination of processes on separate machines

• Congestion and bottlenecks as many computers or many users want the same resource.

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