Isn't the zPCR tool designed to help answer this kind of question? I would expect that you are better off hiring a consultant to do the analysis if you don't have the expertise. In the old days when I was an IBM SE, we would do nearly all of this work for a customer who was looking at a new machine from IBM.
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