I presume that's half as many FICON cards with a move from 2 port to 4 port cards and those cards should be more power efficient as the DPU takes over some processing that was previously in ASICs on the cards.
Scott Chapman On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 14:48:16 -0700, Tom Brennan <[email protected]> wrote: >That's different than what I've found so far. I went to ResourceLink >just now and entered basically the same data for a z15, z16, and z17 as: > >Single CEC drawer >20 Processors active >2048 GB >5 I/O drawers >40 FICON ports >10 OSA 10G fiber >10 OSA 1G fiber >10 OSA 1G copper > >Results, assuming I added correctly: > >z15 8114 W >z16 6635 W >z17 5928 W > >https://www.mildredbrennan.com/mvs/z15_power.png >https://www.mildredbrennan.com/mvs/z16_power.png >https://www.mildredbrennan.com/mvs/z17_power.png > >On 4/17/2025 5:19 AM, Jim Elliott wrote: >> If you compare a z15 and a z16 in the Power and Weight Estimation Tool on >> ResourceLink you will see the z16 draws more power, and the z17 will I >> expect be more. >> > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
