Re: AS/400 MIPS specifications

[mcrump@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Robert,

I used to have to do the same thing you are doing, so I feel your pain! :-)

I will do some looking but I haven't had to do it for at least three years so I
am not sure if I can help.  I did have at one point in time a document from a
vendor that gave approximate MIPS ratings for AS/400 systems.  If (and I must
stress that this is a big if) I can find it the best we can do is extrapolate it
to the new numbers.

I will look today when I can.

Michael Crump
Ball-Foster Glass Container Co.



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I should have (and intended to but forgot) mentioned in my original message
that I realized the MIPS number was meaningless.  However, it is one of the
numbers they asked for so I was trying to provide.  I also thought it might
be interesting to show a comparison of the AS/400 620 MIPS / dollar versus
the MIPS / dollar of the mainframe they seem to be defending.  This is all
part of a nasty political war where user departments / agencies are sick of
the mainframe and the central IT department and a suppossedly impartial
(yeah right) consultant has been hired to tell the County Commissioners
whether the future is the mainframe or something else.

Do any of you kind folks that replied happen to know if the CPW ratings are
used on IBM mainframe models... I guess I'll do some hunting tonight.
Anyhow, thanks for the responses.

--Robert


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From: jpcarr@TREDEGAR.COM <jpcarr@TREDEGAR.COM>
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com <MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com>
Date: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: AS/400 MIPS specifications




>I am currently filling out a consultant survey that  asks for MIPS rating
of our various systems. I have searched high and low  >for approximate
MIPS ratings for my two AS/400 systems but cannot find  them. Does anyone
know either where to find >them or what they are for the  following
(ballpark is probably good enough):
>Model 620 with 2180 Processor
>Model 170 with 2290 Processor
>Thanks in advance,
>Robert E. Burger


The answer is *NULL.

Or,   "How tall is the Empire State Building,   True or False?

Any number you use, would be misleading and invalid.     It must be a old
survey,  There are much better measurements now to gauge a machine than
MIPS.    Java benchmarks,  Ramp-C,  etc, etc.

John Carr







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