Author: Robert Sample
Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 9:59 pm (GMT 5.5)
What is your source for this information? I've seen price quotes from $40,000 to $100,000 (depending on the machine -- more for z13 and less for z9) per zIIP engine. This is significantly less than the cost of a standard engine, but certainly zIIP engines are not free. From http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/hardware/features/ziip/pricing.html
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Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2016 9:59 pm (GMT 5.5)
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| IBM don't charge for zIIP engines to compete with others. |
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| The zIIPs are attractively priced delivering a lower total cost of acquisition. The maintenance price for the zIIP is significantly lower than that of general purpose CPs. Also, the z13 provides symmetric multithreading (SMT) support for zIIP specialty engines. The use of SMT can provide significantly more throughput for zIIPs. |
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The first rule of code reuse is that the code needs to be worth re-using.
"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil." -- Donald Knuth