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Re:IBM's Lost Decade by rbanffy on Monday February 03, 2020 @05:05PM (#22229762)
I'm really surprised IBM doesn't offer a cloud product based on LinuxONE machines. These are ridiculously fast machines that are probably cheaper to build and run that the equivalent capacity in OCP x86 "boxes". And only IBM can have them.
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Re:IBM's Lost Decade by wmf on Monday February 03, 2020 @06:47PM (#22230687)
Maybe because none of that is true? z/Architecture hasn't been (accurately) benchmarked in public for decades if ever.
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Re:IBM's Lost Decade by rbanffy on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @10:22AM (#22236509)
I can tell you it feels very fast. The 5 GHz cores and the L4 cache, combined with the offloaded IO make it compare very favorably to similarly sized (and priced) x86 and POWER machines.
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