On Monday, 10/23/2006 at 03:00 MST, Walter Marguccio
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> and all benchmarks show that our IFL is *FAR* behind the
> Power5 architecture (round 20.000 Eur).

Comparing oscillator speeds is not very interesting; it ranks right up
there with MIPS.  How does your workload perform?  (And I like to
encourage such testing with TWO IFLs....uniprocessing is sooo boring...)

What metric are you using to determine cost-effectiveness?
- Disaster recovery time?
- Time to deploy a new Linux server?
- Time to decommision a server?  (no recyling charges!)
- FTEs needed to support 200 servers?
- Utilization?
- Cost to deploy a new application?
- Time or cost to upgrade the hardware of 200 servers?
- Ambient room temperature for 200 servers?  :-)

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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