Simon Matter wrote:
On 30/10/2018 06:46, Simon Matter wrote:
On 10/29/18 1:55 AM, Simon Matter wrote:
To me it seems like, if they are smart, they will try to push IBM POWER and RedHat Linux together to establish real competition in the hardware market again (and of course don't forget to keep Fedora/CentOS alive)!
Er, RHEL has been running on Power for a very long time. The fastest supercomputer in the world is Power9 + RHEL.
What I meant is that POWER could become a competitor for Intel/AMD based servers. We're now running AMD EPYC servers with 64Cores/128Threads and we didn't find any POWER system which could compete in this area.
As a matter of interest, did you look at IBM's own Power Systems (IBM System i, AS/400, System p, as was)? They promote some of these models as having very powerful processing capabilities but I wonder how they compare in practice with Epyc or Xeon systems.
I always had the impression that those IBM systems were priced in a different range from what we were interested in. And I know that I didn't find any price listed online when looking for POWER servers from IBM last time - and I know what that means :-)
If they came back now with something like their deprecated X86 servers (Netfinity, System x) but on POWER, that could be interesting.
Um, yep. The AS/400/system 1/whatever is not a small system. It's what used to be called a mid-frame, not a micro. It's money.
Back around '94, I worked at a small software house that had it's own DOS/VSR/SP mini-mainrame: Looked like a *very* large tower case... and cost $192k. I wouldn't expect a system 1, if that's the current name, to be under $100k or $200k, minimum.
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