Re: IBM will announce two new System i models, 515 and 525 on Apr. 10.

Then before you speak you need to understand what it means.

*ALL* CPW when measured since it was invented is on a system with maximum configurations of memory and disk. As we all know there will be bottlenecks in any application. Some are disk, some memory, some CPU and some are combinations of these. In the case of the 515 you can cram in only 16GB (seems odd to be saying 'only' and '16GB' and 'Memory' in one phrase) as well as a maximum of 8 disk units. So it's likely that while the CPU itself is capable of 3800 CPW (and is not running with 7/10ths of it's cycles tied behind it's back, just to make it fair) it may be constrained by the limited number of disk arms, disk cache, and memory present in the configuration.

Specs here: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_sp/n/ISD03001USEN/ISD03001USEN.PDF

As an aside if you want to cram 16GB of memory in a Windoze box be prepared to shell out about $10K for the 'Enterprise' version of WinDOHs you will need to be able to use that memory.

- Larry

Lukas Beeler wrote:

Read this:

http://projectdream.org/~lb/i515.pdf

It says "constrained CPW" 800. I have no idea what that really means
(since the document itself doesn't explain it)

I just assumed it works similar as to the accelerator feature of the
520+.

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Lukas I believe you are wrong. I don't know where you got the 800 CPW
from.

The 515 runs 'wide open' at 3,800 CPW and is capped only by user count. You may purchase a second CPU to get you to approx 7,100 CPW.
- Larry

Lukas Beeler wrote:

It's 800 CPW. The CPU can be bumped to 3800 CPW, no idea how much that
costs, though.