IIRC, an experiment was done a few years back to see how many Linux images could be started in an IFL using z/VM. IIRC, HW resources ran out before the software architecture limits were reached. ISTR > 32k images running concurrently (no useful work, just how many can be started).
As to Linux images doing useful work, the answer is "it depends". HTH, <SNIP> I read in z/Journal that one mainframe can host 1,500 Linux servers. What sort of mainframe can do this? How many CPU's would it take? How many CPU's are the maximum? I also read in z/Journal that the lines between a mainframe computer (the z10 to be specific) and a super computer are being blurred. When I was at GuideSHARE Europe two years ago (in Dresden, lovely city) they had a hardware guy there next to a z10 with the nice green stripe down it, and he told me that the mainframe is great for transactional processing, as always, but not too much suited for WebSphere, Java stuff, etc. That's why they had to add speciality engines, etc. Well, that's how I remember it. </SNIP> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
