john.archie.mck...@gmail.com (John McKown) writes: > They are probably referring to a z, but doing it in such a way as to > totally disparage it. The fact that the z13 is the fastest microprocessor > currently existed just doesn't penetrate their mind because the original > S/360 was designed in the 1960s.
z900, 16 processors, 2.5BIPS (156MIPS/proc), Dec2000 z990, 32 processors, 9BIPS, (281MIPS/proc), 2003 z9, 54 processors, 18BIPS (333MIPS/proc), July2005 z10, 64 processors, 30BIPS (469MIPS/proc), Feb2008 z196, 80 processors, 50BIPS (625MIPS/proc), Jul2010 EC12, 101 processors, 75BIPS (743MIPS/proc), Aug2012 I haven't seen the BIPS numbers for z13 yet, just reference that Z13 has about 30% more throughput than EC12 (with 40% more processors) ... which would be about 100BIPS & about 710MIPS/proc. the claims that half the per processor improvement was introduction of features like out-of-order execution, branch prediction, etc. that have been in other chips for decades. e5-2600v1 blade (about concurrent with z196) 400-500+ BIPS (depending on model); around which IBM had base list price of $1815 or about $3.50/BIPS. However, the large cloud megadatacenters claim that they had been doing their own system assemblies for decades (carefully choosing components for total lifetime costs) or around $1/BIPS. The commoditizing of these systems by the large cloud megadatacenters possibly accounts for IBM unloading that product line (the chip manufactures were saying that they were shipping more processor chips to the large cloud megadatacenters than they were shipping to the brand name system vendors). By comparison z196 works out to $560,000/BIPS (w/o software) and EC12 works out to $440,000/BIPS (aka large cloud megadatacenters at $1/BIPS). A e5-2600v3 blade is rated at 2.5 times a e5-2600v1 blade and a current e5-2600v4 blade is rated at 3.5 times a e5-2600v1 blade ... or over 1.5TIPS. A high density rack of e5-2600v4 blades may have more processing power than the aggregate of all mainframes in the world today. -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
