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.... If a vendor says: I have sold X MIPS in year 2009 making this $999
million dollars, what does that means to me?
MIPS per box/machine/case
MIPS per CPU
MIPS per sale transaction(s) of some $$$$
Or if you have a dual or quad core CPU, how do you say how many MIPS per
part of the CPU assembly or for the WHOLE CPU assembly?
I'm really taking this 'x MIPS sold in y months' story with a little grain of pure
salt. ;-D
Look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_second for some
interesting info. ;-D
There is a refence of 'zMIPS' there, but a search in IBM's pages doesn't turn
out any hits... :-(
Your turn to put a smoke screen on me... ;D
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I submit that MIPS is not a valid measurement, since it has no real
correlation with the amount of useful work accomplished by any machine.
One example is RISC machines. They have to simulate instructions that
non-RISC machines execute on a regular basis. The only really good
measure of processor speed is this: does it finish a business's workload
in a timely fashion? To the Board of Directors, that's really the only
valid measure. While a PC on a desktop might be more than adequate for
secretarial chores, running a large corporation is a horse of a
completely different color. Consider all the different tasks involved,
including such things as accounts receivable, accounts payable,
inventory management, payrolls, etc. Some of these tasks require HUGE
amounts of I/O, far beyind the capabilities of a desktop PC.
(And I've never met a salesman that could tell truth from fiction!) :-)
Rick
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