ZIIP and ZAAP processors always run at full speed, even when running on a 
sub-capacity box.
One thing, among many, I don't know is how IBM implements sub-capacity.  Slow 
the clock speed? Skip cycles?

Chris Blaicher
Technical Architect
Syncsort, Inc.


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Subject: Re: CPU time and zIIP

One regular  misconception about (cycle time), irrespective of the type of 
processor the 'speed/cycle time' of ALL the processors is the SAME. CPs with 
CAPACITY setting of 7xx (Zxx in case of the 'BC' class system) are FULL 
capacity. Others are sub-capacity. So if the workload system hasn't enough 
capacity, then it might not run as well as one with abundance. So from a cycle 
point (speed?), zIIPs are not faster.

Parwez Hamid

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