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Sysman replied

8 April 2011, 13:03
Originally posted by minsky1 View Post

Increase in the number of max partitions too ... not that you would ever need more than 1024

Originally posted by Mr.Whippy View Post

"noone will ever need more than 640k"

Or as I said a decade or so ago when a new generation of Alphas was announced:

"We have an application that can fill that",
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Mr.Whippy replied

8 April 2011, 12:38
Originally posted by minsky1 View Post

Increase in the number of max partitions too ... not that you would ever need more than 1024

"noone will ever need more than 640k"
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milanbenes replied

8 April 2011, 11:21
yep

on top of that i was told that at our dc they have heat cameras checking the temperatures everywhere and all spare parts are kept at the same temperature as the running machines

isn't it amazing what you can do if you have £$£

Milan.
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minsky1 replied

8 April 2011, 11:19
Power7 - Yep, the hardware is brill.

PowerVM is better with Active Memory Expansion
Turbocore options for reduced license costs
Energyscale for the tree huggers too.

Fan control with altitude input through Active Energy Manager.

Increase in the number of max partitions too ... not that you would ever need more than 1024

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OwlHoot replied

8 April 2011, 10:52
Originally posted by stek View Post

.NET runs on AIX now?

He must be talking about mono

(probably a good ten years old by now, but it takes Milan a while to catch up )
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milanbenes replied

8 April 2011, 10:38
quite, I've seen it running on SuperDomes or Enterprise M9000's at different assignments and now at the latest assignment Power 7's and these Power 7's are awesome

Milan.
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stek replied

8 April 2011, 10:15
.NET runs on AIX now?
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Mich the Tester replied

8 April 2011, 09:49
Thought this was about rugby 7s.
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milanbenes started a topic Power 7's

8 April 2011, 09:45
Power 7's

morning All,

gotta say folks, .net flies on the Power 7's

how's it going ?

Milan.

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