re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010g.html#24 Intel Nehalem-EX Aims for the Mainframe
aside from possibility of running some sort of mainframe emulator Intel's Xeon 7500 Series Could Be a Server Game-Changer http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20100331/bs_nf/72503 from above: make it possible for IT managers to consolidate up to 20 older single-core, four-chip servers onto a single server while maintaining the same level of performance. That, Intel said, could mean up to a 92 percent reduction in energy costs and a one-year ROI due to reductions in power, cooling and licensing costs. ... snip ... the above article uses the phrase "democratizing high-end computing" ... when it possibly actually means (further) commoditizing it doesn't mention virtualization-based server consolidation of possibly another 10:1 (for 200:1?). AMD is also touting 12-core chip ... as licensing cost savings ... aka licensing costs based on number of physical chips ... as opposed to aggregate number of processor cores. -- 42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
