Re: Core count and # of socket

[Jack Kingsley <iseriesflorida@xxxxxxxxx>]

Rob, maybe they want to know how many your licensed to today 'vs;' how many
you could be.
maybe the core group is really what processor group your system is like P5,
P10 etc.


On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 8:01 AM, Paul Nelson <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> A Canadian, eh?
>
> 3. Labatt's
> 4. Molson
>
> :-))
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> If someone with an email address that ends with the at sign and
> ca.ibm.com, from whom you are trying to buy software to run on your IBM i
> asks you these questions:
> Hardware questions:
>    1. Hardware make and model
>    2. CPU count
>    3. Core Count
>    4. # of socket in the machine
> How do you answer 3 and 4?  Keeping in mind these are multi partition
> machines.  One is a lpar running on a 9117-MMA and the other is a lpar on
> an 8203-E4A.
>
> Sometimes I just want to give up.  Like decades ago when this PC guy
> figured out he could get something running on our old AS/400.  I just gave
> up trying to explain it to him and said go for it and escorted this floppy
> disk packing gentleman into our machine room.
>
>
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