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POWER6: per-core silliness

Wednesday Sep 05, 2007

IBM needs to get back comparing systems that are similar, this "best core" business is a disservice to the industry. It is what the system can do - not what a core does. A core does not a system make.

This is now all over the internet...

    "A high-end, system begins at $2 million before IBM discounts. This is a 16-core version running at 4.7 GHz"
...just like I reported in this blog a IBM power6 16-core system with reasonable memory size/speed costs a lot. Which mean since they have few cores the cores are very expensive. So comparing IBM cores to anyone else's core is truly an " apples to jeweled-encrusted skull" comparison.

So doing the math: $2,000,000/16-cores = $125,000/core (when configured in a system)

IBM definitely loses on $/perf when you look at systems. ... please post a comment if your company actually has a 4.7GHz system.

http://blogs.sun.com/bmseer/entry/power6_latency_data_warehousing_and

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Posted at 02:23PM Sep 05, 2007 in IBM Follies
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"IBM needs to get back comparing systems that are similar"

and why would they do that? To show that Sun is better? :-)

Posted by Harry Potter on September 05, 2007 at 10:50 PM PDT #

>and why would they do that? To show that Sun is better? :-)

Whay already done tons TPC&SAP benchmarks and where they show that power6 is much better ...

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$2M it is 768Gb RAM witch cost $1.4M from that $2M. Are you sure that SUN's 32 core box and 768Gb will cost less than $2M ?

http://www.tpc.org/results/individual_results/IBM/IBM_570_20070522_ES.pdf

Posted by Triffids on September 06, 2007 at 05:17 AM PDT #

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