On 2014-08-06, at 08:53, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > > For Sysplex installations, IBM recommends an 11-Core system with 3 cores > devoted to linux and 8 cores devoted to z/VM and its guests. > > AFAIK ordinary people don't have access to an 11-core system. That would > require a "PC" with four i7 CPU's on the motherboard, and I don't know of any > such "PC" motherboard out there. > Hmmm. MacPro. http://store.apple.com/us_smb_78313/buy-mac/mac-pro Hardware • 2.7GHz 12-core with 30MB of L3 cache • 64GB (4x16GB) of 1866MHz DDR3 ECC • 256GB PCIe-based flash storage • Dual AMD FirePro D500 GPUs with 3GB of GDDR5 VRAM each • User's Guide (English) • Accessory Kit
$8199 > Does that mean RD&T cannot really support a "Sysplex installation"? > You get what you pay for. Not everyone considers $8199 "ordinary". -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
