What about for Intel Microprocessors (MHZ) ?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Adam Thornton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 3:11 PM Subject: Re: Processor Comparisons > I would make the cautious proposal that, if you're looking at > consolidating from Intel or Sparc to zSeries, that, if CPU (rather than > I/O or memory bandwidth) is really your bottleneck, the project is > probably not a good candidate for consolidation. > > In short, and in my experience, grain of salt, all that....if what you > need is more computing cycles, your most cost-effective option is Intel, > assuming that it's a parallelizable workload. If it's not then you're > probably looking at something like a pSeries, for extremely high > per-processor performance. If disk or memory bandwidth is your > bottleneck zSeries may be a very good choice. If you're not hitting any > constraints and can't easily tell which wall you're going to hit first, > there's probably not an effective near-term case for consolidation in > any event. > > If infrastructure management is your primary bottleneck--and this > requires thinking outside the box a bit, since it's not something you > can directly measure on the machines--then zSeries may be an excellent > candidate for you. > > Adam >
