IBM Leaks Details on New Mainframe

IBM Leaks Details on New Mainframe 185

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Friday February 22, 2008 @06:25PM from the it's-all-about-the-benjamips dept.

Mark writes "Big Blue inadvertently revealed details about its new z10 Enterprise Class mainframe set to launch on Feb. 26, as well as details on z/OS v1.10, a new version of the mainframe OS due out in September. 'According to an internal IBM document obtained by SearchDataCenter.com, the z10 Enterprise Class will come in five different models and feature 64-way chips, compared with the 54-way z9 mainframes and earlier 32-way models. In a conference call last month, IBM CFO Mark Loughridge told investors that the z10 would have 50% more capacity, which indicates that it will probably tap out at around 27,000 million instructions per second (MIPS) at the top end, compared with about 18,000 MIPS on the previous z9 Enterprise Class.'"

IBM Leaks Details on New Mainframe

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54 way chips? (Score:2, Funny)

by palegray.net ( 1195047 ) writes: <philip DOT paradis AT palegray DOT net> on Friday February 22, 2008 @06:27PM (#22521580) Homepage Journal

five different models and feature 64-way chips
Is that like 54 cores on a chip? Wowzers, we're gonna need a lot of salsa for this party.

Nah (Score:5, Funny)

by dwalsh ( 87765 ) writes: on Friday February 22, 2008 @06:28PM (#22521592)

I am not buying one till they get that OS up to 3.0 at least.

Imagine... (Score:5, Funny)

by palegray.net ( 1195047 ) writes: <philip DOT paradis AT palegray DOT net> on Friday February 22, 2008 @06:33PM (#22521656) Homepage Journal

Just imagine a beowulf cluster of these. It would make my head explode.

Re:Imagine... (Score:2, Funny)

by n6kuy ( 172098 ) writes: on Friday February 22, 2008 @06:47PM (#22521868)

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of Linux VMs running on one of these...

Re:This might be a dumb question... (Score:5, Funny)

by QRDeNameland ( 873957 ) writes: on Friday February 22, 2008 @07:04PM (#22522068)

Actually "thousands of kilograms" would be "megagrams", but we generally call them "tonnes".

And from there it goes to kilotonnes and megatonnes, then I believe a thousand megatonnes is then commonly called a "shiteload" or, in the US, a "fuckload".

Re:Imagine... (Score:5, Funny)

by mcpkaaos ( 449561 ) writes: on Friday February 22, 2008 @07:07PM (#22522114)

Just imagine a beowulf cluster of these. It would make my head explode.

Okay, but you asked for it.

Re:But will it run Vista? (NT) (Score:2, Funny)

by palegray.net ( 1195047 ) writes: <philip DOT paradis AT palegray DOT net> on Friday February 22, 2008 @07:08PM (#22522118) Homepage Journal

Yes, but only if you buy the upgraded model with 5 TB of RAM and 512 processors. Hardware requirements these days...

Re:This might be a dumb question... (Score:4, Funny)

by bipbop ( 1144919 ) writes: on Friday February 22, 2008 @07:08PM (#22522120)

I resemble that remark!

Re:Imagine... (Score:4, Funny)

by mcpkaaos ( 449561 ) writes: on Friday February 22, 2008 @07:10PM (#22522140)

With that many Linux machines working together you could probably emulate a mainframe.

n-way (Score:3, Funny)

by Shotgun ( 30919 ) writes: on Friday February 22, 2008 @07:12PM (#22522170)

Damn. I never ask for enough. There I was, happy for a 3-way.

Re:This might be a dumb question... (Score:5, Funny)

by mcpkaaos ( 449561 ) writes: on Friday February 22, 2008 @07:16PM (#22522214)

Allow me to offer a solution, inspired by our friends in the storage industry:

1024 MIPS = 1 GIPS
1000 MIPS = 1 GiPS

Naming (Score:3, Funny)

by Tablizer ( 95088 ) writes: on Friday February 22, 2008 @07:16PM (#22522220) Journal

They should call them something like "mega-servers" instead of "mainframes". They might sell more that way. Hmmm.....iFrame?

Obligatory (Score:3, Funny)

by Tablizer ( 95088 ) writes: on Friday February 22, 2008 @07:31PM (#22522366) Journal

I for one welcome our big and fast Cobol overlords.

Re:54 way chips? (Score:3, Funny)

by rbanffy ( 584143 ) writes: on Friday February 22, 2008 @07:40PM (#22522454) Homepage Journal

Wish they could make it available as a single PDF. I don't have enough free time to write a program to download them all and merge them.

And we just upgraded last month (Score:5, Funny)

by jocknerd ( 29758 ) writes: on Friday February 22, 2008 @07:47PM (#22522510)

I guess the IBM rep forgot to mention that a new one was one the way.

Re:n-way (Score:3, Funny)

by gangien ( 151940 ) writes: on Friday February 22, 2008 @07:53PM (#22522558) Homepage

3-way? man, i'd settle for a 2-way, but usually just get a 1-way.

Re:This might be a dumb question... (Score:2, Funny)

by haelduksf ( 812679 ) writes: on Friday February 22, 2008 @08:31PM (#22522920)

i think you mean 1000 MIPS = 1 gyp

Re:Kinda slow, eh? (Score:5, Funny)

by edibobb ( 113989 ) writes: on Friday February 22, 2008 @08:33PM (#22522938) Homepage

Z6 is nothing. I've used a Z80 before.

Re:This might be a dumb question... (Score:5, Funny)

by ozbird ( 127571 ) writes: on Friday February 22, 2008 @08:36PM (#22522966)

I believe a thousand megatonnes is then commonly called a "shiteload" or, in the US, a "fuckload".

A U.S. fuckload is a thousand megatons. A thousand megatonnes is a metric fuckload.

Doesn't Matter (Score:1, Funny)

by GHynson ( 1216406 ) writes: <GHynson@Hotmail.com> on Friday February 22, 2008 @08:44PM (#22523050)

Given the state of software these days,.. They mean 27,000 million mistakes per second. Or 27,000 million mybad's per second.

Re:Imagine... (Score:1, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday February 22, 2008 @09:22PM (#22523264)

So this thing should run Vista Ultimate with minimal issues. I bet my TV programs still skip in Media Center

Who cares? (Score:2, Funny)

by PPH ( 736903 ) writes: on Friday February 22, 2008 @09:54PM (#22523496)

When clock speeds became so high one could no longer see the bus activity on the cool status lights, mainframes are no longer interesting.
Bring back the reel-to-reel tape drives while you're at it.

Re:54 way chips? (Score:3, Funny)

by palegray.net ( 1195047 ) writes: <philip DOT paradis AT palegray DOT net> on Friday February 22, 2008 @10:02PM (#22523564) Homepage Journal

It was supposed to be a joke. I think my humor coprocessor is broken :).

But its gonna be SLOW ... (Score:3, Funny)

by crovira ( 10242 ) writes: on Friday February 22, 2008 @11:26PM (#22524070) Homepage

and need to be rebooted at least once a day.

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54 way chips? (Score:2, Funny)

Nah (Score:5, Funny)

Imagine... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Imagine... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:This might be a dumb question... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Imagine... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:But will it run Vista? (NT) (Score:2, Funny)

Re:This might be a dumb question... (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Imagine... (Score:4, Funny)

n-way (Score:3, Funny)

Re:This might be a dumb question... (Score:5, Funny)

Naming (Score:3, Funny)

Obligatory (Score:3, Funny)

Re:54 way chips? (Score:3, Funny)

And we just upgraded last month (Score:5, Funny)

Re:n-way (Score:3, Funny)

Re:This might be a dumb question... (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Kinda slow, eh? (Score:5, Funny)

Re:This might be a dumb question... (Score:5, Funny)

Doesn't Matter (Score:1, Funny)

Re:Imagine... (Score:1, Funny)

Who cares? (Score:2, Funny)

Re:54 way chips? (Score:3, Funny)

But its gonna be SLOW ... (Score:3, Funny)

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