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IBM Leaks Details on New Mainframe

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the it's-all-about-the-benjamips dept.

Mark writes "Big Blue inadvertently revealed details about its new z10 Enterprise Class mainframe set to launch on Feb. 26, as well as details on z/OS v1.10, a new version of the mainframe OS due out in September. 'According to an internal IBM document obtained by SearchDataCenter.com, the z10 Enterprise Class will come in five different models and feature 64-way chips, compared with the 54-way z9 mainframes and earlier 32-way models. In a conference call last month, IBM CFO Mark Loughridge told investors that the z10 would have 50% more capacity, which indicates that it will probably tap out at around 27,000 million instructions per second (MIPS) at the top end, compared with about 18,000 MIPS on the previous z9 Enterprise Class.'"

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  1. 54 way chips? by palegray.net · · Score: 2, Funny

    five different models and feature 64-way chips Is that like 54 cores on a chip? Wowzers, we're gonna need a lot of salsa for this party.
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    1. Re:54 way chips? by rbanffy · · Score: 2, Funny

      Wish they could make it available as a single PDF. I don't have enough free time to write a program to download them all and merge them.

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    2. Re:54 way chips? by palegray.net · · Score: 3, Funny

      It was supposed to be a joke. I think my humor coprocessor is broken :).

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  2. Nah by dwalsh · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am not buying one till they get that OS up to 3.0 at least.

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  3. Imagine... by palegray.net · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just imagine a beowulf cluster of these. It would make my head explode.

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    1. Re:Imagine... by n6kuy · · Score: 2, Funny

      Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Linux VMs running on one of these...

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    2. Re:Imagine... by mcpkaaos · · Score: 4, Funny

      Just imagine a beowulf cluster of these. It would make my head explode.

      Okay, but you asked for it.

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    3. Re:Imagine... by mcpkaaos · · Score: 3, Funny

      With that many Linux machines working together you could probably emulate a mainframe.

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    4. Re:Imagine... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      So this thing should run Vista Ultimate with minimal issues. I bet my TV programs still skip in Media Center

  4. Re:This might be a dumb question... by QRDeNameland · · Score: 4, Funny

    Actually "thousands of kilograms" would be "megagrams", but we generally call them "tonnes".

    And from there it goes to kilotonnes and megatonnes, then I believe a thousand megatonnes is then commonly called a "shiteload" or, in the US, a "fuckload".

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  5. Re:But will it run Vista? (NT) by palegray.net · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yes, but only if you buy the upgraded model with 5 TB of RAM and 512 processors. Hardware requirements these days...

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  6. Re:This might be a dumb question... by bipbop · · Score: 4, Funny

    I resemble that remark!

  7. n-way by Shotgun · · Score: 2, Funny

    Damn. I never ask for enough. There I was, happy for a 3-way.

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    1. Re:n-way by gangien · · Score: 3, Funny

      3-way? man, i'd settle for a 2-way, but usually just get a 1-way.

  8. Re:This might be a dumb question... by mcpkaaos · · Score: 5, Funny

    Allow me to offer a solution, inspired by our friends in the storage industry:

    1024 MIPS = 1 GIPS
    1000 MIPS = 1 GiPS

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  9. Naming by Tablizer · · Score: 2, Funny

    They should call them something like "mega-servers" instead of "mainframes". They might sell more that way. Hmmm.....iFrame?

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  10. Obligatory by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    I for one welcome our big and fast Cobol overlords.

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  11. And we just upgraded last month by jocknerd · · Score: 4, Funny

    I guess the IBM rep forgot to mention that a new one was one the way.

  12. Re:This might be a dumb question... by haelduksf · · Score: 2, Funny

    i think you mean 1000 MIPS = 1 gyp

  13. Re:Kinda slow, eh? by edibobb · · Score: 5, Funny

    Z6 is nothing. I've used a Z80 before.

  14. Re:This might be a dumb question... by ozbird · · Score: 5, Funny

    I believe a thousand megatonnes is then commonly called a "shiteload" or, in the US, a "fuckload".

    A U.S. fuckload is a thousand megatons. A thousand megatonnes is a metric fuckload.

  15. Doesn't Matter by GHynson · · Score: 1, Funny

    Given the state of software these days,.. They mean 27,000 million mistakes per second. Or 27,000 million mybad's per second.

  16. Who cares? by PPH · · Score: 1, Funny

    When clock speeds became so high one could no longer see the bus activity on the cool status lights, mainframes are no longer interesting.

    Bring back the reel-to-reel tape drives while you're at it.

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  17. But its gonna be SLOW ... by crovira · · Score: 2, Funny

    and need to be rebooted at least once a day.

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