RE: Processors Configured in Even Numbers

I think that "might" have been true very early on when micropartitioning
first came out on the Power5, but then only on the very large systems where
memory interleaving was important. It has been a misnomer since then.

--
Jim Oberholtzer
Chief Technical Architect
Agile Technology Architects


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Sent: Friday, April 11, 2014 10:43 AM
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Subject: Re: Processors Configured in Even Numbers

That's a new one on me and I've been doing this 'a while'. :-)

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 4/11/2014 11:11 AM, Bakutis, Becky wrote:

Someone I work with told me he heard in a conference years ago that

processors should be configured in even numbers for performance reasons.
For example we have a system with .5 processors. He said it should be .6
processors. I spoke with my business partner and he had not heard of this
but was interested to know why the statement was made. It is possible that
this person misunderstood what was said at the conference or it is no longer
valid. Has anyone heard of this?

Becky Bakutis

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