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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.'"

13 of 185 comments (clear)

  1. 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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  2. 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 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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    2. Re:Imagine... by mcpkaaos · · Score: 3, Funny

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

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

    I resemble that remark!

  5. 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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  6. Obligatory by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    I for one welcome our big and fast Cobol overlords.

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  7. 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.

  8. 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.

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

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

  10. 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.

  11. 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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