[email protected] (Timothy Sipples) writes: > I must take issue with the "BIPS" measurement and the cross-architecture > comparisons presented in this discussion. They're extremely misleading at > best. "MIPS" and "BIPS" are perilous enough within zEnterprise capacity > estimations, but they go haywire rapidly when carried elsewhere.
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#5 SAS Deserting the MF? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013g.html#7 SAS Deserting the MF? industry standard benchmark dhrystone used for MIPS, BIPS, TIPS ... which is not actual instructions/sec ... but number of iterations/sec scaled to 370/158-3 assumed to be 1MIPS (aka ibm mainframe is used as industry standard baseline for MIPS, BIPS, & TIPS) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_second there is also FLOPS ... floating point operations/sec http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS other standard benchmarks are SPEC http://www.spec.org/benchmarks.html and TPC. http://www.tpc.org/ In many cases, IBM has hundreds of published, certified industry standard benchmarks ... just none for recent mainframes. recent post discussing subject http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#25 Still think the mainframe is going away soon: Think again. IBM mainframe computer sales are 4% of IBM's revenue; with software, services, and storage it's 25% other recent posts discussing subject: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#6 mainframe "selling" points http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#84 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#88 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#5 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#80 The cloud is killing traditional hardware and software basis for comparison, cite any industry standard benchmark for current ibm mainframe. -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
