On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 16:24:34 -0400, Thompson, Steve wrote: > >There has to be some benchmarking workload that could be put together to >do throughput testing of a system to compare one to the other. > >I'm willing to work on the idea if someone has something on z/OS that >could be ported to Windows. I don't have the COBOL compiler for *NIX >environments, so I can't handle that one.
The HP site that is referenced in the article suggests that the HP can do more I/O because it has 192 slots, compared to 84 slots on the z9 EC. But it doesn't mention that eash of those slots on the z9 can support 4 Ficon channels operating at 4 Gb/second, for a total of 336 channels. Or that a z9 has up 64 STI busses for connecting the I/O to memory, each of which can handle 2.7 GBytes/second. Nope, I don't think they want you to know about that. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
