Re: SMT vs. chargeback [was: Does everybody use chargeback?]

2016-03-08 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 3/8/2016 11:44 AM, Neil Duffee wrote: If all my threads have to run on a single CP, don't I become singly threaded? That is precisely the concept behind SMT (symmetric multithreading). During the pipeline stalls that inevitably occur (e.g., interlocks, cache misses, etc.) the other thread

Re: SMT vs. chargeback [was: Does everybody use chargeback?]

2016-03-08 Thread Charles Mills
8, 2016 11:44 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMT vs. chargeback [was: Does everybody use chargeback?] The U of Zero (*grin*) hasn't charged back for more than 2.5 decades. I still saw account numbers in job cards when I started back then but expect it was hold-over from the

Re: SMT vs. chargeback [was: Does everybody use chargeback?]

2016-03-08 Thread Neil Duffee
The U of Zero (*grin*) hasn't charged back for more than 2.5 decades. I still saw account numbers in job cards when I started back then but expect it was hold-over from the card/batch-only days and habit from the lifers that ran the system. Given our expected un-plug in the next year, the PTB