IBM's z12 mainframe engine makes each clock count

2012-09-06 Thread Ed Gould
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Re: IBM's z12 mainframe engine makes each clock count

2012-09-06 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
edgould1...@comcast.net (Ed Gould) writes: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/05/ibm_z12_mainframe_engine/ z12 is aggregate 75BIPS (for 101 processors, 50% more than 80processor z196 at 50BIPS). A z12 processor is 25% more powerful (than z196 engine) at 1,600MIPS (1.6BIPS).