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(watch the wrap) Figure 1 <http://ibmsystemsmag.com/getattachment/036bc583-03de-4f64-8d2d-346c08bf78c6> Many people can explain that the z Systems platform has the power to do things that other machines can’t. Others express proof of their belief that such assertions aren’t true by quoting benchmark results, or showing the power and scalability of aggregated clusters of smaller machines. This has been going on for a long time, and it’s largely because the participants fall into the Internal Throughput Rate (ITR) trap. To effectively resolve the issue, we need to understand what is meant by compute power. This article will explain compute power by defining underlying performance and capacity fundamentals: ITR External Throughput Rate (ETR) Response time ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
