On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 10:09:49 -0500, John McKown wrote: >.... I've had some people indicate that the "enterprise" >level Intel servers can approach the z's I/O rate. But I am unsure.
I think they are dreaming. Sure, they can support Fibre Channel, but how many of them? Certainly not hundreds. The memory on a PC can't handle that kind of data rate. -- 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
