Did the MP2000 and MP3000 simulate S/390 on x86 chips, use P/390 technology or use tailored hardware?
Since ZAAP (remember it?) and ZIIP are marketing gimmicks to begin with, IBM could easilly add one to the mix if they believed that there was a business case. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Andrew Rowley [and...@blackhillsoftware.com] Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2022 8:23 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mark your calendars for July 10, 2022 - CustomPac intended removal date On 19/05/2022 5:50 pm, Timothy Sipples wrote: > That’s even more difficult to characterize, but (eyeballing it) 1000X > must be too high. Maybe... it's hard to find a good comparison over that length of time. But a Multiprise 2000 is in the original Pentium era. A $1500 Lenovo boasts an Intel i7 with 8 cores/16 threads. If 8 cores gives e.g. 5x throughput, it only has to achieve 200x the single CPU speed of a 1996 Pentium for 1000x increase overall. It might not be 1000X but it must be close. > Having a zIIP gives you plenty of horsepower for z/OSMF, and having an IBM > z15 gives you System Recovery Boost which gives you…plenty of horsepower for > z/OSMF at least during the first 60 minutes. (It’s the z/OSMF startup that > can take a long time on a low capacity configuration. I wouldn't be surprised if once people start using z/OSMF, it's not just the startup that is slow on a small system. Maybe IBM should give everyone one zIIP with their z/OS 2.5 license... it might even be a useful stimulus for smaller z/OS sites. -- Andrew Rowley Black Hill Software ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
