>>You cannot do that. 16 GB is minimum as increments are in 16 GB too. >Not on z800.
Different class of system, isn't it? That's why there's a z890, after all, to provide smaller increments (of both processor and memory), either alone or in combination with System z9-109. I think 16 GB is a "lot," but then I look at the System z9-109 and see that there are still 30+ different (physical) memory configurations available on a single frame. Said another way, the system has smooth memory granularity in ~3.3% increments. And one 16 GB increment is almost exactly the same price as one Linux engine or zAAP. (Both are cheap in comparison to fully burdened labor.) There's also the z890 (and z800) and, if its 32 GB system maximum is available in 1 GB increments, then that's also ~3.3% granularity (31 steps). And before anybody leaps in and says "who could ever use 512 GB?" (the z9 single frame maximum), here's the answer: Linux and Java. They love memory. (We just had an IBM-MAIN discussion about 64-bit Java heaps because a 31-bit addressible heap wasn't "enough.") You can do a lot in 32 GB, but you can do even more in 512 GB. I think the Mark I was maxed out at ~1600 digits of vacuum tube storage. (Not sure of the bit width, so let's call it digits.) Now an iPod nano has 4 GB of electronic memory (albeit nothing at all like mainframe memory) and retails for a couple hundred bucks. Mark I storage was priced the same as a good sized army (at draft-level wages), and now the average U.S. worker can earn enough for a whole iPod in little more than a day. Progress! :-) - - - - - Timothy F. Sipples Consulting Enterprise Software Architect IBM Americas zSeries/z9 Software Phone: +1 312 529 1612 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
