Patent ID: 7203719

Claim:
A system for measuring the size of a distributed system of interconnected computer servers, said system comprising: means for identifying a distributed system of interconnected computer servers, each server having a number of CPUs and an amount of random access memory (RAM) installed in the server; means for forming, for each said server, a first weighted asymptotic function of the count of CPUs installed in said each said server, and a CPU factor based on said server architecture and operating system; means for forming, for each said server, a second weighted asymptotic function of the amount of random access memory installed on said each said server, and a normalizing factor representing a reference date, and a RAM factor based on said server architecture and operating system; means for forming a product of said first and second weighted asymptotic functions for said each said server; and means for forming the sum of said products for all said interconnected computer servers to obtain a measure of the size of said distributed system of computer servers.