David Kanter <dkan...@gmail.com> writes: > http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT010312153140 > > Hopefully you all find this an interesting and enjoyable read.
related posts about maximum configured z196 at 50BIPS http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#23 21st Century Migrates Mainframe with Clerity http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#56 IBM researchers make 12-atom magnetic memory bit http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#59 IBM's z196 Article at RWT and recent post in linkedin Mainframe Experts: http://lnkd.in/2syFGU and http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#78 counter is mega-datacenters (many that likely have more processing power than the aggregate of all currently installed mainframes) and being able to carve out (batch) virtual supercomputer (subset of a mega-datacenter processors) ... relatively similar technologies used in supercomputers/GRID and the mega-datacenter/clouds Amazon takes supercomputing to the cloud (42nd largest supercomputer) http://news.cnet.com/8301-13846_3-57349321-62/amazon-takes-supercomputing-to-the-cloud/ has 240TIPS (or 240TFLOPS) on 17,000 cores ... for Amazon carved out batch supercomputer upthread has estimate for 10,000 currently installed mainframes ... assuming that all 10,000 were maximum configured z196 at 50BIPs ... that comes out to upper limit on all currently installed mainframes aggregate processing power at 500TIPS -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
