This is a marketing opportunity. IBM should contact Google. IBM should suggest a parallel test with returned hardware (z16, z15, z14). Convert their stack to run in a Linux on z image, then duplicate a portion of workload to the z?15? with limited processors and see how they run. Gradually increase the workload until the z has delays the up the number of z processors. Do workload balancing, shifting between images when workload changes, etc, all while documenting workload, power use, costs on newer models, etc.
On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM Steve Thompson <ste...@wkyr.net> wrote: > Well, I got connected to AI, and got into a bit of a chat. > > Bottom line, all things considered, cloud will cost more over > time than using mainframes and merging linux workloads under z/VM. > > But sales people revenue off of modernization off to a cloud and > not getting all the speed and processing a z/Arch machine can do > on the MVS side and the Unix System Services side. > > Things go in cycles. Wonder if I will live long enough to migrate > back to z/Arch or whatever it will be called with the next > generation... > > -- > > Regards, > Steve Thompson > Make Mainframes Great Again > They use far less Electricity than Clouds and can do more work > > > On 8/15/2025 2:17 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: > > I don't have pilot.... What answer would one get to a question > > of which is faster (second question more efficient) a 4 CORE > > (pick the CPU CHIP) or a z/1x with 4 CPs? > > > > I just wonder what answer one would get.... > > > > > > -- Regards, > > Steve Thompson > > > > Make Mainframes Great Again > > > > > > On 8/15/2025 1:15 PM, Jon Perryman wrote: > >> On Fri, 15 Aug 2025 13:55:35 +0000, Seymour J Metz > >> <sme...@gmu.edu> wrote: > >> > >>> So apparently an incorrect answer is better than "I'm sorry > >>> Dave, I don't know that." > >> If AI correct answers was a standard, "I'm sorry Dave" would > >> be the most common answer. Better an incorrect answer than no > >> answer at all. > >> > >> I asked copilot "which cpu has the fastest single core > >> speed?". It did not answer IBM TELUM where the instruction set > >> and IBM boasts each performs 10X better than any other CPU > >> core while running Linux. > >> > >> I asked copilot "is el capitan supercomputer a server farm?" > >> and it replied, "not exactly". Copiliot ignores that el > >> capitan is built using 5,000 blade servers, each running Linux > >> that boasts a network speed of 12tb/sec. "server" is literally > >> in the name. > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > >> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO > >> IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
