A short report from BrainShare in Salt Lake City... IBM has the z10 EC they were showing at SHARE here for the trade show. Richard Lewis of IBM helped us set up some special things for the conference. Aside from the ever popular cloning demo (1,000 instances created in a little over 3 hours), he set up a SLES10 SP1 guest with full graphical desktop packages (GNOME and KDE), as well as three other guests we're using to demonstrate our Starter System. We're using XDMCP to connect to a GNOME session running on the z10, side by side with an Intel system also running SLES10 SP1 in 64-bit mode. The z10 guest is on the same network segment as our two desktop systems, so there's just about zero network latency.
Keeping in mind that the z10 is running about 1% busy overall, so not a typical environment, you pretty much can't tell any difference in response time between the local Intel system and the remote z10 session. Pretty cool. Just to satisfy my own curiosity, I ran a kernel compile on the z10 guest. With only one virtual processor defined to the guest, it finished in 4 minutes. If I'd had two processors defined, I'm sure it would have been much less than that. One thing we discovered (which I already knew but had forgotten) is that the IBM Java doesn't have browser plugins, so Firefox wouldn't display the nice graphical "gas meter" display from the cloning demo web page. (No Flash either, but I wasn't expecting that.) The Konqueror browser, however, worked just fine, so we have that up on the z10 desktop session, next to Firefox pointing to something else. So far, Richard has resisted my attempts to bribe him into letting me take the z10 home with me. Apparently $20 doesn't go nearly as far as it used to. :( Sigh. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
