[Info-vax] VMS x86 performance ?

[John Dallman]

In article <rnhc48$ut2$1 at tncsrv09.home.tnetconsulting.net>,
gtaylor at tnetconsulting.net (Grant Taylor) wrote:

> "x86-64 standard HW" seems like a misnomer to me.  A LOT of 
> different things can fall into that broad description, anything 
> from a low end college student notebook from 10 years ago to the 
> contemporary virtualization power house system.

The sensible interpretation is the kind of systems that enterprises run
the bulk of their virtual machines on: 1-2U rack-mount systems, using
current Intel processors with 8-20 cores per package. The top-end
processors are stupidly expensive in such systems, but ones a few speed
bins below that are very cost-effective per core, cheaper than good
deskside PCs. 

You still need to describe such a system along with any benchmarks done
on it, but the general class of system is well-understood in corporate IT.
They're hugely faster than Alphas and a fair bit faster than Itaniums,
when all of those systems are running native code, and IT departments who
need to keep running VMS will be very happy if they can use this kind of
hardware for it. 

John