On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 11:25 PM, Timothy Sipples <[email protected]> wrote:
> >Nor will I because it cost real money due > >to MSU usage and I'd get keel hauled for wasting money. > > First of all, I'm quite sure all computing has costs. Except.... > > ....Unutilized sub-peak 4HRA capacity is as close to free as anything in > computing. Your time is not free, though. > True and not true. We use "Group Capacity" to cap our MSUs.When you do this, you can exceed your hard cap if you have, what I call, some "saved up slack" from the previous 4HRA. And we actually monitor this with some code I have written to analyze SYSLOG messages written out from BMC' MainView. So, it is true that my Bit Coin mining would not really cost hard dollars. But it would impact this "reservoir" of MSUs which can be "tapped" for a short term "spike" of usage wherein we can exceed our "Group Capacity" for a short while before being "capped" by PR/SM. > > So, just put your Bitcoin mining (or whatever else you want to have fun > with) in a basement/cellar WLM service class. I'm assuming trivial disk > storage requirements, a fair assumption here. > > I recall submitting jobs into bottom-of-the-barrel work queues in college. > Most of the time they completed, eventually, and nobody else cared. Idle > time was just wasted time if not consumed. Has this principle been > forgotten? I hope not. > > See the above how this "idle time" is not wasted when your system is capped below its hardware maximum by using "Group Capacity" limiting. And we are charged by the "Group Capacity" MSUs, not the actual used MSUs. Don't ask me, this whole thing is simply beyond me. And I will stop at this point or I'll just go onto a soap box. -- While a transcendent vocabulary is laudable, one must be eternally careful so that the calculated objective of communication does not become ensconced in obscurity. In other words, eschew obfuscation. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
