Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 17, 2004 08:03 AM
First I'll say that if we put on blinders (and remove most of our long term memory) then Unisys is finally on the right track with running Linux on the ES7000.
\
That said, Sun and HP do not make mainframes or anything remotely equivalent to them. The author has some excellent points and understanding of the history with Unisys (I was running an 4way 386 based system in the early 90s) but could gain from some experience in the high end space. The IBM p690 is the closest thing to a UNIX mainframe with the possible exception of some things Fujitsu is working on (or of course when we ran AIX on the 390).
Having 32way partitions is entry point these days. Sun is still back in the dark ages using board level (4 CPU) allocations which we were doing in 2000 on the E10000. IBM will be supporting 64way LPARs with a minimum partition size of 1/10 of a CPU. Oh, and while the "partitioning" is basically a hardwire, SGI is supporting 128way Linux on the Altix (and can do more by special request, read support $$$).
Final thought: if I wanted to run Windows and Linux on the same hardware I would run VMWare ESX on 8way systems....like we do now. This is the cheap $50k commodity hardware space.
Learn about Linux
Download Linux
Get Linux help
Well...you almost got it
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 17, 2004 08:03 AM\
That said, Sun and HP do not make mainframes or anything remotely equivalent to them. The author has some excellent points and understanding of the history with Unisys (I was running an 4way 386 based system in the early 90s) but could gain from some experience in the high end space. The IBM p690 is the closest thing to a UNIX mainframe with the possible exception of some things Fujitsu is working on (or of course when we ran AIX on the 390).
Having 32way partitions is entry point these days. Sun is still back in the dark ages using board level (4 CPU) allocations which we were doing in 2000 on the E10000. IBM will be supporting 64way LPARs with a minimum partition size of 1/10 of a CPU. Oh, and while the "partitioning" is basically a hardwire, SGI is supporting 128way Linux on the Altix (and can do more by special request, read support $$$).
Final thought: if I wanted to run Windows and Linux on the same hardware I would run VMWare ESX on 8way systems....like we do now. This is the cheap $50k commodity hardware space.
#