from: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#20 21st Century Migrates Mainframe with Clerity
numerous mega-datacenters around the world, any one possibly with more BIPS than total aggregate mainframe installed BIPS and from: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012.html#23 21st Century Migrates Mainframe with Clerity and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TurboHercules#Performance any mega-datacenter running TurboHercules on every processor may have more simulated mainframe BIPS than total aggregate mainframe installed BIPS ... and simulated mainframe BIPS cost at possibly 1/1000 of z196 BIPS and from this morning: Fusion-io demos billion IOPS server config http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/06/fusion_billion_iops/ from above: Fusion has a track record in such demonstrations, starting with the 1 million IOPS Quicksilver demo with IBM's SVC in 2009. It needed a rack of systems. Two years later it has gone a thousand times faster with far fewer but more powerful servers. ... snip ... -- 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
