Begin <slrneftlpp.51g.pakrat@vm01.raleigh.neotoma.org>
On 2006-09-06, pakrat@localhost.private.neotoma.org
<pakrat@localhost.private.neotoma.org> wrote:
> On 5 Sep 2006 23:21:58 GMT in <4m6f4mF4qmatU1@individual.net>
> jpd <read_the_sig@do.not.spam.it.invalid> wrote:
>> Begin <slrnefr1gc.315.pakrat@vm01.raleigh.neotoma.org>
>> On 2006-09-05, pakrat@localhost.private.neotoma.org
>><pakrat@localhost.private.neotoma.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> IBM seems to be tossing money into such work with Linux/Xen.
>>> Intel and AMD seem to be tossing money into hardware to make this easier
>>> to accomplish with their CPUs.
>>
>> Which for IBM is a bit ironic, IMO...
>
> Anyone that thinks that IBM has a unified direction has had a case
> of cranial rectal inversion ATLEAST since the 5150 was released.
> Now that IBM is largely services and works for hire, things are even
> more schizophrenic.

Not that they never made a mistake. Not making up their minds about
placement of the 615[01], for example. Or the VM cruft in there. Nice
experiment, but back then a bit premature.


>>> At current moment IBM does not make any non-blade pSeries systems that
>>> are not capable of such partitioning.
>>
>> ... and this is why. Not to mention BIG iron.
>
> I presently deal with pSeries big, middle, and small iron.
> I'm more impressed with partitioning with VIO on the middle and small iron
> than on the big iron. I could be jaded because it requires significantly
> fewer people in the meeting for a firmware upgrade, or memory replacement
> on the small and medium iron.
> And we won't go into power and physical structure requirements for big iron.

I'll go with jaded. I fully agree that smaller and simpler does have its
upsides, but reinventing badly instead of engineering the feature so
it'll work in a smaller box too, could use improvements. 'Sides, the big
stuff still tends to get features first and also because of that needs
to guard against teething problems more heavily.


> There's just someone wrong when they start offering liquid cooled chiller
> doors for the boxes. Doubly wrong if you saw the sales spike when s/390
> went CMOS and could be air cooled.

Then again, some people seem to think their peecee isn't worth a thing
if it doesn't have liquid cooled CPUs AND GPUs AND cooling fans on
the memory sticks. AND a bunch of otherwise useless lights stuffed in
improbable places. AND... well, you get the picture.

Liked the e10k casemod though.


> Unless IBM outsources the design and manufacturing of the xSeries
> box and it doens't have light path diagnostics.

Could just as well've gotten a dell then. Oh well.


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