Kelly,

At 11:27 AM 10/23/2009, Kelly Lipp wrote:
>If one reads the IBM documentation on the latest x3850/x3950 M2 one will 
>observe that the data paths within that architecture are actually faster than 
>in the latest pSeries hardware.

I'm curious - does your analysis include the number of busses available?  I 
know that the pSeries has quite a lot of busses to drive all of its adapters.  
I'm not as familiar with the xSeries, so I don't know if there is a model 
available that has a comparable number of busses.  It's not just the speed, 
it's the overall throughput that most concerns me.  Sure, I could have more 
smaller xSeries servers, but then I would have more resource baskets to manage.

Thanks for sharing.
..Paul



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