Re: Core count and # of socket

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well the raw answers can be determined quite straight up from the specs 
on each of your systems.

9117-MMA will depend on number and type of drawers.  For each drawer, 
two sockets. For each socket populated, one CPU and two cores, except 
the FC #7540 processor which is 4 cores per CPU.

8203-E4A is always one socket but could be one CPU two cores or one CPU 
and four cores with FC #5587 or 5635 processors.

Thing is (as you clearly realize) that the answers are essentially 
irrelevant.  You might have cores deconfigured cores running AIX or 
Linux and nearly certainly you don't have IBM i licensed for every core 
on the machine.

Depending on what bit of software you are considering, they may care 
about (but don't understand) processor pools. Others are flat user based 
and all the above stuff is irrelevant.

Sadly you can no longer take your Pgroup to the chart and get a price 
straightaway.

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

On 7/12/2012 7:50 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> Rob Berendt