PROBLEM 5 You have to design the system interconnection network of a multicomputer system. Your choices are to use an Omega or a Butterfly network. Your multicomputer system interconnection network has 4096 inputs and 4096 outputs. You have available 4x4 switches. Each switch costs $50.00. However, 4 combined 4x4 switches (for a 16x16 switch) cost $1500.00 each. You can use combined switches in Butterfly networks. Each interconnection line between switches costs $5.00. Which interconnection network configuration are you going to implement if the economic factor is the determining one

Corporations with suppliers, vendors, and customers all over the globe are referred to as : a) global corporations b) international corporations c) multinational corporations d) multicultural corporations

Precision dyes is analyzing two machines to determine which one it should purchase. the company requires a rate of return of 15 percent and uses straight-line depreciation to a zero book value over the life of its equipment. ignore bonus depreciation. machine a has a cost of $462,000, annual aftertax cash outflows of $46,200, and a four-year life. machine b costs $898,000, has annual aftertax cash outflows of $16,500, and has a seven-year life. whichever machine is purchased will be replaced at the end of its useful life. which machine should the company purchase and how much less is that machine's eac as compared to the other machine's

Which of the following is not an example of one of the four mail advantages of prices on a free market economy