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. 2015 Oct 1;3:3000109. doi: 10.1109/JTEHM.2015.2485268

TABLE 4. Configuration Parameters and Performance Metrics for Current Capacity of McMaster NICU.

Parameter Value (unit)
No. of beds in NICU 47
Mean patient arrival rate (patient/day) 2
Mean no. of patients in NICU 45.8
Mean length of stay for patients (days) 41.5
Mean no of algorithms for 1 patient (per day) – [9] 9
No. of all running algorithms on Streams (per day) 423
NICU’s Service rate (patient/day) 0.024
Blocking probability 0.448
Mean value of memory per algorithm – [9] 110 (MB)
Req. memory on Streams cluster 41.3 (GB)
Req. storage for a patient’s data (per day) – [9] 700 (MB)
Req. storage for a pump data (per hour) 360 (MB)
Req. storage on BigInsights cluster (per year) 40 (TB)