Yup - My 2003 multiprise (or, er, my employers..) has six processors in it. We only paid for one, so thats all we get. We did upgrade from 16 to 24 mips shortly after we bought it. CE came in with a floppy, zapped the firmware (Changed clock oscillation rate), IPL'd, and bingo! He said the procedure is the same for changing the number of processors active also. Same box can go to 127 mips via same procedure. I want all six! Now all I need is about $50k
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OK... I was going to flame on about mainframes vs. servers... but I checked the IBM site and they call 'em all "Enterprise Servers". OK. But then I read this article.
I use an ancient 486/66 w/32mb ram (a VLB machine no less!) on RR. It gateways/firewalls for three machines in my house. In the early morning hours (Pre-7am), I can get nearly 1mb/sec downstream. I have never tried the cable modem straight in (I set this up the day they installed RR), so I cannot say if the Linux box is slowing me down, but I can consistently get 300-600kbs average. Better than a modem, and no DSL CO-distance worries, or (at least around here) finger-pointing from multiple vendors about where the problem lies when something goes wrong (DSL here can be a real PIA AFAIK).
Little anecdote on S/390 processors. We run a 2003-205 S/390 box. Came with 1 processor, running 13 MIPS. We found it to be too slow, so we ordered an upgrade to a model 207 (24 mips). Cost 60K. The tech came in one night, put a floppy in the hardware console (it is an IBM pc, P-II/300), fiddled a bit, and viola! It was now a 207!
I queried this guy a bit on this black (blue?) magic. Seems the 200x series processors come with 6 CPU's in them. The clock oscillation rate of each, and the number that actively process are controlled by SOFTWARE! These things can be 6-way SMP, and over 140 MIPS by doing the same procedure... oh, yea, and forking over mega-bucks to big blue.
What an incredible business model! My (red) hat is off to the guys who came up with *that*.
That aside... I agree with another poster that Linux would be a damn sight better than the OE shell and Unix system Services. And yes, you can run the X server on the mainframe, and use your regular old X-client. But, again.,.. why?
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Yup - My 2003 multiprise (or, er, my employers..) has six processors in it. We only paid for one, so thats all we get. We did upgrade from 16 to 24 mips shortly after we bought it. CE came in with a floppy, zapped the firmware (Changed clock oscillation rate), IPL'd, and bingo! He said the procedure is the same for changing the number of processors active also. Same box can go to 127 mips via same procedure. I want all six! Now all I need is about $50k
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OK... I was going to flame on about mainframes vs. servers... but I checked the IBM site and they call 'em all "Enterprise Servers". OK. But then I read this article.
I love this period of system evolution!
I use an ancient 486/66 w/32mb ram (a VLB machine no less!) on RR. It gateways/firewalls for three machines in my house. In the early morning hours (Pre-7am), I can get nearly 1mb/sec downstream. I have never tried the cable modem straight in (I set this up the day they installed RR), so I cannot say if the Linux box is slowing me down, but I can consistently get 300-600kbs average. Better than a modem, and no DSL CO-distance worries, or (at least around here) finger-pointing from multiple vendors about where the problem lies when something goes wrong (DSL here can be a real PIA AFAIK).
Jim.
Anyone know what the size of this mo-chine is? I could run maybe 10-20 images of something on ours, but 41K would be pressing it!
Esa
Little anecdote on S/390 processors. We run a 2003-205 S/390 box. Came with 1 processor, running 13 MIPS. We found it to be too slow, so we ordered an upgrade to a model 207 (24 mips). Cost 60K. The tech came in one night, put a floppy in the hardware console (it is an IBM pc, P-II/300), fiddled a bit, and viola! It was now a 207!
I queried this guy a bit on this black (blue?) magic. Seems the 200x series processors come with 6 CPU's in them. The clock oscillation rate of each, and the number that actively process are controlled by SOFTWARE! These things can be 6-way SMP, and over 140 MIPS by doing the same procedure... oh, yea, and forking over mega-bucks to big blue.
What an incredible business model! My (red) hat is off to the guys who came up with *that*.
That aside... I agree with another poster that Linux would be a damn sight better than the OE shell and Unix system Services. And yes, you can run the X server on the mainframe, and use your regular old X-client. But, again.,.. why?
Jim.