20 Chips oh Oh BOY !

[Nflight]

http://www.dailytech.com/IBM+z10+Pro...ticle10882.htm

Imagine what you could do with these new processors, and the effort one company is comprising for future computing! oh my ....

[mitchellds]

Now we're talking. I just need to line up a corporate sponsor. IBM probably.

[Beerknurd]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080226/..._new_mainframe

"The new System z10, with a starting price at about $1 million, comes as IBM focuses on lowering the price tag for running its storied line of data-crunching workhorses."

So do you think IBM would try to clear my check before handing one of these over to me?? I could write them a check and then run like hell...

[Nflight]

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/

Operating Systems for the beast, if anyone was wondering what it runs on!
I am currently looking for the flavor of Linux that it runs on? If anyone finds it can you post it please.

[Danish Dynamite]

nflight look here

edit Red Hat Advanced Server and SUSE Enterprise Server

[Nflight]

Thank You Danish Dynamite....

[AMDave]

IBM have not got around to updating that table to include the System z10 yet.
We can check back later as they are still nailing down the OS support (includig solicited support for Sun Solaris which will be new to that table)

[Brucifer]

Keep the perspective gang.

IBM is in a totally different world than all the desktop people. They've had a couple shots at the desktop world and didn't do well with it. Chalk that off to their marketing boys or whatever you want. Reality is that there isn't enough bucks in the desktop thing for them to really waste their time messing with it, or else they wouldn't have sold off their desktop related assets.

The interesting comment following the article was the one by the IBM techie that commented on the redunancy and bucks involved in the very heavy duty mainframe world. The x86 stuff just doesn't play there. Everything goes back to using the proper tool for the job. I continually get a ton of laughs out of people that talk about this chip or that chip knocking the socks off everything. Unfortunately most of the time they don't take a real hard look at what that specific chip was built to do. High end computing isn't a general purpose world, rather there are always very specific goals to meet specific needs.

[mitchellds]

yup they dont want to waste their time/effort on the desktop. Our last mainframe we bought/leased from IBM cost around a cool 4 million clams.