It was announced several days ago that Cell processors would be used in servers. Who knows (lab knows) if also in z9+. z890 machines are great for Linux workloads (remember, IFLs run there full speed regardless of regular CP speed) in small shops. There is growing number of customers running Linux on IFLs in CEMA (for R.S. - in Poland too) and as Rich stated - no numeric intensive applications (use pSeries for that) but DB2, WAS etc. And also IFLs only z9 machines were delivered....
Marian Gasparovic IBM Slovakia On 2/10/06, Rich Smrcina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Will we ever see a 3Ghz mainframe? Who knows, the z890/z990/System z9 > go a long way to bringing Linux workloads back to the mainframe. > Customers that were upset at performance back in the G5 days should give > it another try, it has become much better. What sort of workload do you > want to run on your IFL? Don't know? You still certainly won't be > running any CPU crunching apps like matrix calculations or seismic > analysis. Java application servers are running alot better on the newer > hardware (WebSphere on a MP3000 was somewhat painful). > > The usual caveats apply here, an IFL is great at the majority of > workloads that use up to 15-20% of a server, with a large dose of 'It > Depends' added to it. Workloads are easily measured over time to > determine if they are a good candidate. Existing Linux workloads are > the easist, Windows workloads a little harder depending upon what it is. > > I personally know of shops with dozens and dozens of Linux servers > running on their mainframe. z/VM does a great job of resource allocation. > > Porowski, Ken wrote: > > > > Just had a brief conversation with one of our server gang ... mentioned > > that they should try an IFL on the mainframe ... He claimed that a rep > > (IBM?) was in once and stated that the 'processor speed' was only 900 > > MHz so couldn't really compete with what we were looking for. I also > > mentioned that the 'engine' was relatively cheap at only $125K. After > > he finished laughing he stated do you have any idea how much hardware I > > can buy for $125K? > > > > I don't consider the IFL's as the savior of the mainframe as I define > > the 'mainframe' as roughly equivalent to 'big box running z/OS'. zIIPs > > and zAAPs are another matter though. > > -- > Rich Smrcina > VM Assist, Inc. > Main: (262)392-2026 > Cell: (414)491-6001 > Ans Service: (360)715-2467 > rich.smrcina at vmassist.com > > Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org > WAVV 2006 - Chattanooga, TN - April 7-11, 2006 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
