On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 13:46:55 -0500, Mike Schwab <[email protected]> wrote:
>It has a small proof-of-concept box that it can make available to >those running mainframe apps where they can see how it works and try >out some of their own applications. This box, based on an Intel NUC >running an i7 CPU, is smaller than the size of a hardback book, but >can run workloads as if it was a reasonable-sized mainframe. Right. Assuming that they can interpret the z/Architecture instructions at a reasonable rate, since they don't recompile. And assuming that they can provide emulation for all of the things that real systems do, including serialization of accesses. And ssuming that they can lash together enough commodity x86 systems to perform significant real work. I'm skeptical of all that but assuming all that, where are they going to get the I/O bandwidth needed? -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
