I think it's a safe bet that many 54-way z9's would be required, and lots of
fully loaded
DS8000's, with the new 4G Ficon (insert tool man growl here).
It would be a sweet coup if there were any interest.
Sergey Korzhevsky wrote:
05.05.2006 15:40:36 Tim Hare wrote:
I'd say that's true in one sense - without the TCO calculations. But in
another sense - how much does it cost for a virtual Linux server?
Assuming
(I know, I know.. ) their z/VM box has some capacity left, it costs very
little to create one more Linux image, and you don't have to wait for
someone to bring one from the storage room / warehouse. Note that I'm
assuming Google buys extra hardware in advance, installing it as needed,
rather than waiting until they need it to buy it. If they wait until the
last minute to buy it, then you have to figure in delivery / shipping
costs.
Don't you think, that they need so many PC because they need a lot of CPU
power? So, many linuxes under z/VM on single(2, 3, whatever) IFL wouldn't
do the job.
WBR, Sergey
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