George Henke wrote:
This is simply incredible, to think that IBM would deliberately run BCT
loops to throttle, slowdown, CPs.
It is one thing to cut back the CPU cache. It is quite another to
deliberate slow things down.
IBM's current knee-capping approach is far superior to the old
adjusted-clocking approach. It has given rise to the most granular
sizing and flexible upgrade paths of any hardware platform on the planet.
Today's mainframe dynamic provisioning capabilities are truly
leading-edge, and improving with each new generation.
We can dynamically grow any DASD volume--on the fly--up to 226GB in
size. We can download and dynamically apply a patch that makes our CPUs
run faster, adds new CPUs, or both. Expect to see even more such
capabilities in the future...
People with PC-only experience are always astonished when I tell them
about modern mainframe provisioning capabilities. They always assume
when your hard drive fills up you need a new one or when your CPU is too
slow you need a new one. What we do seems like magic to them.
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
-- Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961
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Edward E Jaffe
Phoenix Software International, Inc
831 Parkview Drive North
El Segundo, CA 90245
310-338-0400 x318
[email protected]
http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/
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