For cross-platform benchmarking, SPEC is generally considered the tool-of-preference. The CPU specific benchmarks are SPECint and SPECfp, which use code that does almost no I/O... and may, in fact, fit entirely in cache (depending upon the amount of cache for that processor). This is where I strongly suspect that the x86 and Itanium processors will make the processors used in mainframes look *really* bad.
OTOH, there are SPEC benchmarks for other purposes. SPECjbb is a Java throughput benchmark where there are already many submissions from other platforms. Of course, there are transaction and database oriented benchmarks, such as TPC, and those might be interesting as well. Regards, Dean ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lindy Mayfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2007 1:06 AM Subject: Re: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article > How about also something that is almost identical on each system, such as a web server, Java or WebSphere? > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Thompson > Sent: 15. heinäkuuta 2007 9:55 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives' article > > > But we keep talking about the power of the mainframe. Isn't it time to > put up or shut up? > > For Normalization purposes, I chose COBOL and a data base (common > situation). I also am suggesting a batch oriented report. However, we > could choose an ALC based system (but then we have to emulate it on > under Windows, which wouldn't be considered fair). We could choose to > use C or C++. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
