Re: IBM will announce two new System i models, 515 and 525 on Apr. 10. -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: IBM will announce two new System i models, 515 and 525 on Apr. 10.
From: Pat Barber <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 13:48:26 -0400
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"Guessing" would hardly be a reasonable way to measure
processing power. Some of the things that you quote are
just plain incorrect.

There is NO accurate way to compare "any" pc, quadcore
or otherwise to a machine that runs a multi-user operating
system and has god only knows how many additional processors
doing "other" things. It's just silly to even "guess" at
that sort of comparison.

On 4/10/07, Mike Cunningham <mcunning@xxxxxxx> wrote:

I am curious where are you getting the 8000+ CPW (commercial processing
workload) rating for a PC?

just guessing. Whatever the equivalence is, the Xeon doubled in speed
last year by cranking up the clock and doubling the number of cores.

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