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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. This might be a dumb question... by TubeSteak · · Score: 4, Interesting

    How come they talk about thousands of MIPS instead of just saying GIPS?

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  2. Low-End Port to PowerPC? by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 3, Interesting

    These mainframes use the z6 CPU, which is closely related to the POWER6, which is closely related to the PowerPC.

    Is it at all possible to automatically port any nontrivial z6 software to PPC, if it doesn't require the actually different HW of the z6 (or its much higher performance)? Any possibility to run PPC SW on a z6, with some automatic porting for the higher performance?

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  3. Re:Nah Dried off? by davidsyes · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'll wait til it's dried off. Can't have a server that someone took a LEAK on...

    Oh, maybe they made early RELEASE of details... I wonder, in IT context, how a vendor can "leak" its own details...

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  4. Re:Imagine... by quanticle · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Splitting one of these mainframes into multiple Linux VMs is actually one of the more common uses for these things.

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