On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 11:21:23AM -0600, Adam Thornton wrote: | On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 10:57, Jim Sibley wrote: | > The speed of the top of the line zSeries has increased | > at four fold in the last 3-4 years. | | I'd be amazed if Intel hasn't done at least this well too.
It probably has. But CPU power isn't the whole story, either. I'd ask about how fast a machine built around an Intel/AMD CPU can deal with multiple devices concurrently transferring data for read or write I/O operations. If you need sheer computation power, zSeries is probably not right for you (how about PPC?). But if you need a large, high traffic, high uptime, database, you don't really want the kinds of machines typically built around Intel CPUs. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Phil Howard KA9WGN | http://linuxhomepage.com/ http://ham.org/ | | (first name) at ipal.net | http://phil.ipal.org/ http://ka9wgn.ham.org/ | -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
