I agree that the speed of CPU is not the problem anymore. But do you want CPU intensive load? Afaik the CPU in mainframe, even z10, is still more expensive than an intel. So if you'd have CPU intensive loads, would it be still cost effective to run on z? Do we still need to stay away from these applications?
Regards, berry. -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob van der Heij Sent: donderdag 18 juni 2009 9:19 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: FW: Rules of Thumb In the early days of Linux on z/VM, we were using very slow CPUs so that 1-2 hrs on the other hardware meant 10-20 hrs of CPU on S/390. That made it very hard to compete and we told people to stay away from CPU-intensive workload. Today mainframe CPUs are as fast as the rest. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
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