Agreed, if their (Google) applications are I/O bound and NOT CPU intensive, go with z/VM and a thousand Linux guests underneath it.
JC > About 18 months ago, I sent e-mail to Google suggesting that they > investigate zSeries hardware as a "Google Labs" project. I never heard, > one way or another, whether they looked at it or not. > > Not knowing their proprietary algorithms, it's hard to tell whether > clusters of z/VM-based Linux virtual servers would help them, or not. > > If they are CPU bound, I think it's been demonstrated that some Intel, > and even some IBM RISC CPUs are actually faster than 390-architecture > CPUs, so for compute-intensive tasks, they'd want to do other things. > > If it's just a disk space issue, then neither computing platform, of > course, has an advantage - it's up to the storage vendores. > > If the limiting factor is I/O "bandwidth", reliability or floorspace > (server consolidation thru virtualization), then I'd go for z-boxen, since > in my opinion that's where mainframe advantages lie. > > I still think they should at least investigate the possibilities. As > should some other major "hosting" sites, such as those that host blogs: > when Six Apart had major problems last year due to failures, it earned > them a lot of negative publicity from the "A-list" bloggers. If you're > betting the business, why not bet it on hardware designed from the > beginning for Reliability and Availability? > > Tim Hare > Senior Systems Programmer > Florida Department of Transportation > (850) 414-4209 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > John Cassidy (Dipl.-Ingr.) Berninastrasse 9 8057 Zuerich Europe Telephone: +41 (0) 43 300 4602 Mobile: +41 (0) 79 207 3268 HTTP: www.JDCassidy.net / www.Eurological.eu ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
