re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#47 Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#48 Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#53 Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services?
old news articles about AWS spinning up, on-demand supercomputer using credit card ... and no AWS human intervention, all automated processes. $1,279/hr, (42nd largest supercomputer in world, 240TFLOP in 17,000 cores) https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-takes-supercomputing-to-the-cloud/ https://www.wired.com/2011/12/nonexistent-supercomputer/all/1 $4,824/hr, 51,132 cores http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/04/4829-per-hour-supercomputer-built-on-amazon-cloud-to-fuel-cancer-research/ part of the thread from the period that a cloud megadatacenter have hundreds of thousands blades with millions of cores ... staffed with 80-120 people. large cloud operators had been claiming for decade that they built their own server blades for 1/3rd the cost of brand name vendors ... and in this period there was news that server chip vendors were shipping over half the server chips directly to cloud operators (possible motivation for IBM selling off its server business). also from the period, IBM's mainframe price was something like million times IBM's base list price of e5-2600 server blade (in price/BIPS) ... making the cloud server blades something like 1/3,000,000 (price/BIPS, aka cloud price 1/3rd brand name servers). The cost of servers for typical 500,000 system cloud megadatacenter then would be something like the cost of a dozen or so max-configured mainframes (and easily have more processing power than all mainframes in the world today) some old posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#78 Has anyone successfully migrated off mainframes? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#80 Article on IBM's z196 Mainframe Architecture http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012d.html#50 Layer 8: NASA unplugs last mainframe http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012f.html#12 Can Mainframes Be Part Of Cloud Computing? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012h.html#70 How many cost a cpu second? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012i.html#84 Can anybody give me a clear idea about Cloud Computing in MAINFRAME ? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#34 X86 server http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#42 I.B.M. Mainframe Evolves to Serve the Digital World http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#47 I.B.M. Mainframe Evolves to Serve the Digital World http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#51 Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#56 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012m.html#28 I.B.M. Mainframe Evolves to Serve the Digital World http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#86 What Makes an Architecture Bizarre? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#10 FW: mainframe "selling" points -- Start up Costs http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013b.html#15 A Private life? -- 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
