When I read this post I sat at my machine for about 2 minutes trying to figure out a good way to respond to your question. In that 2 minutes nothing on my screen changed except the seconds field on the time box.
Everything else in the video buffer stayed absolutely the same during that wait. It is highly unlikely in a business environment that everyone would run a compute intensive application such as a screen saver to run on 3000 virtual machines simultaneously. A screen screen saver would run on the appliance that supported the RDC environment (and that actually had a screen to save). Again, most desktop machines don't actually do enough from a task activity and graphics standpoint to create overwhelming overhead. --. .- .-. -.-- Gary Dennis Mantissa Corporation On 7/22/08 1:44 PM, "Romanowski, John (OFT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can the z handle "3000 copies of Windows" all running a graphic user > interface (cpu-intensive) ? > > > -------------------------------------------------------- > This e-mail, including any attachments, may be confidential, privileged or > otherwise legally protected. It is intended only for the addressee. If you > received this e-mail in error or from someone who was not authorized to send > it to you, do not disseminate, copy or otherwise use this e-mail or its > attachments. Please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete > the e-mail from your system. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Gary M. Dennis > Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 2:03 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Re: Nice idea in blog: Should we toss x86 architecture > > This was our post to the zd net blog. > > > "Maybe we already have. > > In Q1 2009 Mantissa will deliver a system that permits unaltered Windows > operating systems to run under z/VM. Using a desktop appliance running > RDC, > users will be able to connect to their virtual Windows images running in > the > VM environment. Goodbye desktop hardware, remote maintenance, high power > consumption, machine order lead time. > > z/VOS began with the observation that most Windows workstations do > practically nothing 95% of the time and we were so intrigued with the > idea > of being able to actually run an intel-based operating system under IBM > VM > that we never looked back. VM provided a natural platform for > development of > this product. > > The product has been a bear for the development group but the thought of > being able to run 3000 copies of Windows on one System z so fascinated > the > team that we needed very little additional incentive. > > Let's hope IBM can ramp up System z production." > > > Why wait until 2016? > --. .- .-. -.-- > > Gary Dennis > Mantissa Corporation > > On 7/22/08 11:14 AM, "Bob Heerdink" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=9183 >> >> "Should we toss x86 architecture and wipe the slate with something > greene >> r >> and more scalable?" >> >> "Windows Server 2016 128-bit edition running virtualized on z/VM in a > gre >> en >> datacenter, accessed via my house from a thin client over high-speed > fibe >> r >> optic connection. I can see it now." >> >> Hope this happens sooner than predicted, >> Bob >> >
