On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 10:28:13PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > >A nice fast 8-way Opteron would probably outrun the average PartnerWorld > >Flex-ES box, but that's hardly an apples-to-apples comparison. :-) > I'd be content to judge their finest against the finest alternative to > be a fair comparison.
Well, if you're just doing z/Linux, you can throw one hell of a fast box at the problem with Hercules for what you would spend on Flex-ES. Considering that I just priced out two Opteron 265s for my Hercules development box last night to replace a pair of Opteron 244s at $271 each (going from two to four cores total, at the same 1.8 GHz clock speed), building a full-bore 8-way Opteron 880 system could probably be done for well under $10K. > In such an environment, lack of VM might not matter so much, the > virtualisation could be done natively rather than in the emulated > environment. Indeed. Simply run multiple copies of Hercules. This only works, of course, as long as you're not doing things that depend on z/VM... -- Jay Maynard, K5ZC http://www.conmicro.cx http://jmaynard.livejournal.com http://www.tronguy.net http://www.hercules-390.org (Yes, that's me!) Buy Hercules stuff at http://www.cafepress.com/hercules-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
