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Former Member
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Just out of curiosity, has anyone set up a big mainframe running VM with several hundred / thousand linux systems and run these wu's to see what kind of performance is derived?
I'm just curious how fast these might run on say a big z9 processor with numerous LPARS and VM systems with lots of linux guests. Anyone have this data or know where to get it? TIA |
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Former Member
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Most of the science applications we use were originally used on supercomputers. I have no idea what information is available - do let us know what you find out.
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Dotsch
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I have build a SETI application for Linux on the zSeries. But, I have to look for the excatly perofmance benchmarks I have done. I think it was in the range of a midrange PC. - The zSeries is optimzed for a heavy workload with a heavy throughtput and not specialy for fast numbercrunching.
So far I know has IBM announced, or launched, Cell CPU based boards for the zSeries for special tasks. If you rewritte the science application specialy for the Cell CPU (like it also would be used in the Playstation 3 (PS3) you will get a very good performance. There are several BOINC project out there which got a really good perfomance from the Cell CPU... |
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akamai99
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I have lots of empty Cycles on some Mainframes, but I don't know how to build these. Is there a set of instructions or someone interested in building these for me...
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Dotsch
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Porting BOINC is quite easy on Linux for zSeries. A BOINC client binary package and the SETI application is still available at my homepage (http://www.dotsch.de).
----------------------------------------But the problem at WCG and the most other projects is, that they are closed source. There are only few BOINC projects, which are open source... What excatly do you want to port ? - Eventualy I can assist you... [Edit 2 times, last edit by Dotsch at Aug 20, 2008 3:41:05 PM] |
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