Re: Is there a MIPS to Ghs conversion table or vise vera; we would like to move several Linix servers to an IFL

2009-08-20 Thread Rick Fochtman
---snip Google is not very helpful. 1. What is the Mps to Ghz conversion for our mainframe - i.e. we have a 2094-S08 505 processor for mainframe applications that has 1,721 MIPS. 2. How many virtual Linux servers would a zO8 IFL support

Is there a MIPS to Ghs conversion table or vise vera; we would like to move several Linix servers to an IFL

2009-08-19 Thread BOB COSBY
Google is not very helpful. 1. What is the Mps to Ghz conversion for our mainframe - i.e. we have a 2094-S08 505 processor for mainframe applications that has 1,721 MIPS. 2. How many virtual Linux servers would a zO8 IFL support with a Quad(4)/Quad(4)/2.4 Ghz configuration?

Re: Is there a MIPS to Ghs conversion table or vise vera; we would like to move several Linix servers to an IFL

2009-08-19 Thread Joel Wolpert
I wouldn't trust any conversion chart that exists or what anyone says is the conversion ratio. There is no accurate way to convert MIPS to GHz. My suggestion would be to take a representative workload on the virtual Linux servers and run a POC on the IFL. You should measure the cpu usage on

Re: Is there a MIPS to Ghs conversion table or vise vera; we would like to move several Linix servers to an IFL

2009-08-19 Thread Peter Bishop
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:36:47 -0600, BOB COSBY bob.co...@nfc.usda.gov wrote: Google is not very helpful. 1. What is the Mps to Ghz conversion for our mainframe - i.e. we have a 2094-S08 505 processor for mainframe applications that has 1,721 MIPS. 2. How many virtual Linux servers would

Re: Is there a MIPS to Ghs conversion table or vise vera; we would like to move several Linix servers to an IFL

2009-08-19 Thread Mark Post
On 8/19/2009 at 6:36 PM, BOB COSBY bob.co...@nfc.usda.gov wrote: Google is not very helpful. 1. What is the Mps to Ghz conversion for our mainframe - i.e. we have a 2094-S08 505 processor for mainframe applications that has 1,721 MIPS. Based on the work done by Velocity Software, a good