RE: Sony/Toshiba/IBM announce new "Super Computer" chip

Um, not your average "PC" program then. Like I said, I can see the use
in servers, and that's a server! OOC, is it used for
testing/development, or is it meant to allow you to run mainframe
applications on PC hardware in production?

-Walden 


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From: midrange-nontech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-nontech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jay Maynard
Sent: Tuesday, 08 February, 2005 10:30
To: Non-Technical Discussion about the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: Sony/Toshiba/IBM announce new "Super Computer" chip

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 10:15:42AM -0500, Walden H. Leverich wrote:
> >Hercules.
> Game? I'd be surprised if it would support 10 simultaneous threads.
2-4,
> sure, more than that, maybe, but they'd just be causing thrashing on
> current hardware.

IBM mainframe emulator. It will happily use every processor you can
throw at
it. It can emulate multiprocessor systems, and each emulated processor
is a
thread...and there are three overhead threads for different kinds of
maintenance tasks...and it will use multiple threads for overlapped I/O.
(By
default, it keeps an unused I/O thread around for 5 minutes to handle
more
requests, but it can be configured to launch a new thread for every
I/O).

I've run it on an 8-way Proliant 8500 before and kept all 8 CPUs busy.
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