I must take issue with the "BIPS" measurement and the cross-architecture comparisons presented in this discussion. They're extremely misleading at best. "MIPS" and "BIPS" are perilous enough within zEnterprise capacity estimations, but they go haywire rapidly when carried elsewhere.
That should be obvious from the suggestion that half a rack of blade servers is in any way comparable to 180 z196 machines with 80 cores each. In a word, no. An 80 core z196 doesn't have only 80 cores, by the way. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples GMU VCT Architect Executive (Based in Singapore) E-Mail: [email protected] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
