For a fairly decent description, try looking at: http://lse.sourceforge.net/numa/faq/
Chris Blaicher -----Original Message----- From: Eric Bielefeld [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 11:26 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Performance and Capacity Planning Chris, Two things. 1. What is a NUMA machine. How does being NUMA affect performance or MIPS values. 2. I still think that MIPS is a good measure of performance, if used within the same line of computers. If you compare the z/890, or z/990 models, MIPS gives a good relative value of what to expect. If you compare them to a 9672, it probably isn't as relevant. The fact the IBM, when announcing new hardware, usually prints MIPS in their charts says that it is still a valid number. I'm not saying it is best, or that there isn't problems with MIPS, but the MIPS numbers still make more sense to me than any other indicators. Eric Bielefeld P&H Mining Equipment ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
