Table 1.
Configuration parameters and performance metrics for current capacity of SickKids NICU.
| Parameter | Value |
| Beds in NICU, n | 36 |
| Patient arrival (patient/day), mean rate | 4.5 |
| Length of stay for patients (days), mean | 16 |
| Number of algorithms for 1 patient, mean | 9 |
| All running algorithms on Streams, n | 311 |
| NICU’s service (patient/day), rate | 0.062 |
| Blocking probability | 0.455 |
| Number of patients in NICU, mean | 34.9 |
| Memory per algorithm, mean MB | 110 |
| Required memory on Streams cluster, GB | 32 |
| Required CPU cores for Streams cluster, n | 16 |
| Required storage for a patient’s data (per day), MB | 700 |
| Required storage on BigInsights cluster (per year), TB | 8.6 |