re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#20 21st Century Migrates Mainframe with Clerity
other measures TPC-C: http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_perf_results.asp ibm has six in the top ten ... power ... but also @#8
 using (older) quad-core Xeon (but they are also the lowest price/tpmC) TPC benchmarks: http://www.tpc.org/information/benchmarks.asp early history http://www.tpc.org/information/who/gray.asp past posts mentioning original sql/relational implementations in bldg. 28 ... some of the time with Jim: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#systemr guess as to z196 comparison (from older z10 & nehalem comparison): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TurboHercules#Performance from above: "...we can run a reasonably sized load (800MIPS with our standard package). If the machine in question is larger than that, we can scale to 1600MIPS with our quad Nehalem based package and we have been promised an 8 way Nehalem EX based machine early next year that should take us to the 3200MIPS mark. Anything bigger than that is replicated by a collection of systems." ... snip ... and: Current high end System z10 systems are capable of performance up to around 28,000 MIPS (for aggregate performance of many CPUs in a fully configured 64-CPU multiprocessor server), so Hercules is outperformed by almost one order of magnitude. However, Hercules on a PC costs several orders of magnitude less[citation needed] than those high end System z systems. ... snip ... z196 has been been claimed to be 50% faster than Z10 or 42BIPS ... however reference claims z196 peak at 50BIPS (possibly larger number of CPUs?) ... aka http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/09/01/ibm-unveils-worlds-fastest-microprocessor/ TurboHercules runs possibly 10 native intel instructions for every emulated mainframe instruction ... and emulated 3.2BIPS mainframe with 8way Nehalem EX ... then is 32BIPS native (compared to z196 peak 50BIPS). -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
