Re: Current PTF groups and SPECTRE/MELTDOWN

True, and we are seeing that. That's the bad news.

The good news is most customers had the extra CPU available since these
machines are so big. The better news is those that don't have the extra
CPU now have incentive to upgrade.

Jim Oberholtzer
CEO/Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects

On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 8:01 AM, Tsvetan Marinov <tsetso.marinov@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

IBM release benchmarking result yesterday.

According to them after Spectre/Meltdown fixes, CPW and rPerf for Power8
and Power are 5%-6% down after the fixes.

Regards,
Tsetso

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From: Rob Berendt
Sent: 28 February 2018 14:59
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Current PTF groups and SPECTRE/MELTDOWN

That is good news.


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From: Jim Oberholtzer <midrangel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 02/28/2018 09:54 AM
Subject: Current PTF groups and SPECTRE/MELTDOWN
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There is good news with respect to the Google action on SPECTRE/MELTDOWN.
Since IBM was called out along with Intel in a Wall Street Journal report
I've got customers that would not allow me to apply Groups/Cumulative for
over a year to allow it now. We are going nuts getting it all done but at
least they are allowing it.

The other good news is it allowed me to have the V7R1 is not supported
soon
discussion with senior leadership and now we are getting the go ahead to
do
some upgrades. IT guys claiming the Senior Execs were stopping them.
Senior Execs saying they know nothing about the end of support. Leads you
to wonder where the roadblock really was, does it not.....

So far 15 partitions and not a single hitch. Fingers crossed.

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