Communication cost is an important aspect of the performance of distributed systems.

用户通信代价是分布式系统性能的一个重要方面。

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So most research of distributed query optimization aim at reducing communication cost.

所以大多数研究分布式查询优化以减少通讯开销为目标。

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Two of optimization guidelines are minimal communication cost and minimal response time.

使通讯费用最小，响应时间最短是两个优化准则。

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"So what you get may be cost, but what you give up may be the on-going relationship, the communication, the follow-up care, and things,traditionally, American patients have held very dear."

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In every market--and at every step from suppliers of raw materials to consumers of finished goods--faster, cheaper communication lowers the cost of producing and consuming.

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The second is that merely adding a website on to an existing business is not enough: the whole business needs to be redesigned around the cost-saving, communication-easing properties of the net.

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The simple part is to see that computation, storage and communication are moving in the direction of cost free.

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