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| From | MitchAlsup <MitchAlsup@aol.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.arch |
| Subject | Re: Are rotating register files still a bad idea? |
| Date | 2012-02-03 13:04 -0800 |
| Organization | http://groups.google.com |
| Message-ID | <11081842.2417.1328303046554.JavaMail.geo-discussion-forums@yquu38> (permalink) |
| References | <ggtgp-60FC24.23160602022012@netnews.mchsi.com> <bcf1faf4a52f566960056617e73589de@msgid.frell.theremailer.net> <m3ehubrdq5.fsf@garlic.com> |
Some perspective: On Friday, February 3, 2012 12:09:06 PM UTC-6, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: > current estimate is that there are 10,000 mainframes installed at > 4000-5000 customers This is 1/3rd of a day in the FAB for AMD and less than 1 hour for Intel. And that is the entirety of the installed base! > recent mainframe z196 is rated at 50BIPS with 80 processors (previous > mainframe z10 was 24BIPS with 64 processors) ... or if every mainframe > in the world upgraded to maximum 80 processor configuration ... that > works at to 500TIPS > compared to on-demand supercomputer from Amazon cloud at 240TIPS (which > would rank 42nd in the world) ... lots of cloud mega-datacenters may > individually have more processing power than the aggregate of every > mainframe in the world today. I suspect the computers behind the Google search engine are more powerful enmassé than all of the installed mainframes world wide over the entire history of mainframes. Mitch
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