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IBM Leaks Details on New Mainframe
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.'"
How come they talk about thousands of MIPS instead of just saying GIPS?
Quite. My cheap crap dual core athlon 64 has a clock frequency of 2.6GHz and can do up to 8 instructions per clock per core. Let's say it does 2 instructions per clock per core. That's 4 per clock at 2.6GHz. That would be 10 400 MIPS, or 10.4 GIPs.
And don't give me that nonsense about PeeCee IO bandwidth. This is a NUMA machine with fast disks and memory.
So, IBM's fancy mainframe is about 3 times the speed of my PeeCee.
Mind you, to give them credit, my PeeCee runs Slackware, and IBM funds Slackware on their mainframes (just like RedHat and SuSE) so all three people who want to run Linux on their mainframe can.
IBM - Same old bovine excrement.
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