300ms is my ideal latency, but we don’t achieve that under all circumstances. Even for blob storage, I see as much as 100ms latency. That said, my laptop has maybe 8 cores. Even if I had 0ms reads from an SSD, I’m compute bound for some tasks.

Moreover, I think we have differing definitions of “experiment”. In the context of a sequencing study, I think an “experiment” can be as simple as answering the hypothesis: does the missingness of a genotype correlate with any sample metadata (e.g. sequencing platform). You might try to test that hypothesis by looking at a PC1-PC2 plot with points colored by sequencing platform where the PCA is conducted on the 0/1 indicator matrix of missingness.

In the dry lab, that is what I mean by experiment. By that definition, a scientist does many experiments a day. Particularly for sequencing studies, these experiments are data-intensive, I need to run a simple computation on a lot of data to confirm the hypothesis.