My suggestion for this question is that it should be directed to your IBM sales team and not the Spectrum Scale support team. My reading of the information you provided is that your processor counts as 2 cores. As for the PVU value my guess is that at a minimum it is 50 but again that should be a question for your IBM sales team.
One other option is to switch from processor based licensing for Scale to storage (TB) based licensing. I think one of the reasons for storage based licensing was to avoid issues like the one you are raising. Regards, The Spectrum Scale (GPFS) team ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ If you feel that your question can benefit other users of Spectrum Scale (GPFS), then please post it to the public IBM developerWroks Forum at https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/forum?id=11111111-0000-0000-0000-000000000479 . If your query concerns a potential software error in Spectrum Scale (GPFS) and you have an IBM software maintenance contract please contact 1-800-237-5511 in the United States or your local IBM Service Center in other countries. The forum is informally monitored as time permits and should not be used for priority messages to the Spectrum Scale (GPFS) team. From: Jonathan Buzzard <jonathan.buzz...@strath.ac.uk> To: gpfsug main discussion list <gpfsug-discuss@spectrumscale.org> Date: 06/29/2021 09:47 AM Subject: [EXTERNAL] [gpfsug-discuss] PVU question Sent by: gpfsug-discuss-boun...@spectrumscale.org Hum, it would appear there are gaps in IBM's PVU table. Specifically I am looking at using a Pentium G4620 in a server https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/97460/intel-pentium-processor-g4620-3m-cache-3-70-ghz.html It's dual core with ECC memory support all in a socket 1151. While a low spec it would be an upgrade from the Xeon E3113 currently in use and more than adequate for the job. A quad code CPU would more than double the PVU for no performance gain so I am not keen to go there. The only reason for the upgrade is the hardware is now getting on and finding spares on eBay is now getting hard (it's a Dell PowerEdge R300). However it doesn't fit anywhere in the PVU table https://www.ibm.com/software/passportadvantage/pvu_licensing_for_customers.html It's not a Xeon, it's not a Core, it's not AMD and it's not single core. It won't be in a laptop, desktop or workstation so that rules out that PVU calculation. Does that mean zero PVU :-) or it's not supported or what? Customer support where hopeless in answering my query. Then again IBM think I need GDPR stickers for returning a memory DIMM. JAB -- Jonathan A. Buzzard Tel: +44141-5483420 HPC System Administrator, ARCHIE-WeSt. University of Strathclyde, John Anderson Building, Glasgow. G4 0NG _______________________________________________ gpfsug-discuss mailing list gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss
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