A dual Xeon box with 12 cores and 64GB can be had for less than half the price of that Mac. If you have the $$$ for the licence, the hardware cost is a non-issue.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: August-06-14 11:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Rational Development and Test (RD&T) aka z/OS on a PC 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
