[email protected] (Charles Mills) writes: > I would guess because the market is for Linux on Intel. Vicious cycle: > no apps, no offering, no apps, ...
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016h.html#56 Why Can't You Buy z Mainframe Services from Amazon Cloud Services? a big issue in the cluster supercomputing, cluster grid, and cloud computing megadatacenters was that they needed to make significant changes to the system operating paradigm ... and in order to do that, they needed source ... and full freedom to change it (which effectively met linux). for awhile, the big cloud megadatacenters were threatening to move to ARM ... which had specifically been design for effecient battery powered operation ... but as a result represented significant power/BIPS savings (as cost of their systems have so dramatically dropped, power&cooling were increasingly becaming major expense). They even installed some number of ARM-based complexes ... with same Linux systems (processor architecture becoming relatively transparent). This then prompted the i86 server processor chip makers to get significantly more efficient in the power efficiency of their chips (and stories about big cloud megadatacenters migrating to ARM have since dropped off). Some of the big cloud operators are even getting server processor chips with custom designed features specifically for their use. -- 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
