Posts by tpm

Re: Will We Become As...

I sure hope so. Perhaps to stay in their good graces, I will come up with that beer alternative now. Perhaps something based on plasma....

Re: Wee historical tidbit on "International"

They actually had a factory in Toronto as well, which was closer to Endicott and Binghampton in a lot of ways other than geography.

Re: Limit of LPARs per system

Well, I use the IBM Hardware and Software Sales Manual to figure out what is there and what is not there yet.

Check it out:

http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.jsp?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_sm/s/897/ENUS5765-PVS/index.html&breadCrum=DET001PT023&url=buttonpressed=DET002PT005&specific_index=DET001PEF010&DET015PGL002=DET001PEF012&submit.x=9&submit.y=12&lang=en_US

IBM PowerVM V2.2 contains the following enhancements:

Role Based Access Control (RBAC)

Support for up to 80 virtual processors on Power 710 and 720

Support for up to 160 virtual processors on Power 730, 740, 750, 770, and 780

Support for up to 254 virtual partitions on Power 795

Support for Concurrent Add of VLANs

PowerVM support for sub-chip per-core licensing on Power 710, 720, 730, and 740

I know IBM was working on extending PowerVM, but I have yet to see these capabilities in an announcement letter. Maybe they were rolled up in a Technology Release?

Re: Yeah but...

Yes, but only Crysis 2.

Re: The $63.8m is what can be solidly proven...

I said as much in my story, but the editors chopped it.

Re: Intel used HP?

Perhaps they both used each other--and both got burned. HP made Intel change the instruction set to be more amenable to PA-RISC and HP-UX, and thereby made it less like what Intel might have done on its own which almost certainly would have been more compatible with x86 than it turned out. Intel got all the smarties from HP (and DEC) to help it learn how to make RASy chips.

Seems reasonable.

Re: Clearl,y a Friday morning effort...

Actually, it was done yesterday immediately following root canal. No shit. The copyediting could have been better, too.

TPM

Re: Where are the details of new storage products?

Our crack storage reporter, Chris Mellor, is on the case. Fear not.

Re: Correction

I think that was the point. If you want the full Matrix experience, you need HP storage.

Re: That Intel mobo

Good question

But the Intel mobo spec sheet says says it has 18 DIMMs per board:

http://opencompute.org/specs/Open_Compute_Project_Intel_Motherboard_v1.0.pdf

The picture doesn't match the spec, obviously.

Re: sip the koolaid

I'll get to that. One story at a time, lad.

Re: Question:

That's a good question. It is either Socket H2 or B2, but I will find out.

Re: home-made Boston cream pie and a decent beer,

There is very decent beer. See, I make it myself. The latest is a buckwheat honey porter. I have ten gallons of hard cider--weighing in at 11.5 per cent alcohol--ready to bottle this weekend.

Re: +1 for that

There are a number of differences. A blade chassis has its own internal management controller and tools that span all of the blades as well as shared storage and shared networking. They also have a shared midplane linking the blades to the chassis and to the switches and management controllers. Blades can also have two or four sockets. Micro servers are small, don't have a shared management framework, are generally single-socket boxes with minimal memory and I/O. They plug into shared power and have their own disks.

Re: fs-cache

But of course. Blasted dyslexia. Yes, I had trouble spelling that, too.

Re: Yawn

Just a brain fart on the silicon dioxide. As for me being highly paid. . . . I don't know any journalists who fit that description.

Re: 31 bit?

Because back then in the early 1970s, IBM couldn't afford the extra bit when it jumped from 24 to 31.

Re: Re-up

Ya know, I probably did.

Re: PCoIP is a display protocol

Absolutely right. I meant PC image datastreams.

Re: Minerals and fuel

Halliburton--NEXT!

Re: One clarification

Absolutely correct. My dyslexia is showing through again.

Re: No need to be overly PC

Actually, it has upgraded with an accent:

http://www.sanjoseca.gov/