It looks to me like you are talking about speed. You pegged 6 1.2GHz Power CPUs for 10+ hours. That is a lot more compute power then you will get from 2 z890 CPUs.
-----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Yu Safin Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 1:50 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SuSE Linux Benchmark On 6/21/06, Fargusson.Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Absolutely not. A z890 is slower than a 1.2GHz Power CPU. Two IFLs compared > to 6 Power CPUs is going to be a lot slower. SPARC chips are generally > faster then a z890 as well. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Yu > Safin > Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2006 1:29 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: SuSE Linux Benchmark > > > We have an application running on one of our Unix machines that > consists of Java code making calls to Oracle in the same box. We ran > a benchnmark with a few concurrent jobs and the 6 Unix CPU's were > pegged at 100% for 10+ hours (1.2 GHz CPU's) under AIX. > We also have Linux SuSE under zVM with Oracle and 2 IFL's dedicated on > a z890. The plan is to run the same jobs and the same Oracle content > to see how long the elapsed time will be compared to the Unix server. > We are going through every possible effort to make sure both runs are > the same with the only difference being the platforms. > Has anybody conducted a similar type of test? > is it realistic to expect two IFL's on a z890 to keep up with 6 CPU's > at 1.2 GHz under AIX? how about SUN? > > This is a mission critical application. The benchmark is based on > real data. We are talking 260 Gbytes of Oracle data. > > any advise will be appreciated. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > are you saying you have run such benchmarks and the z890 was smoked? or are you stating that 1.2 GHz is faster than a z890 processor? I am talking throughput here, not speed. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
