CPW

All,
I'm new the the 400 so I appologize if this is a really stupid question.

We have a 400 that we want to run JAS on. So far I have it running on a Windows box and a Sun Box. With that said, I'm trying to stack my 400s performance to the other systems. Is there some type of conversion for CPW and GHZ? For example, is a CPW 1500 similar to a 1Ghz Intel Proc?

MAX

Max,
I'm looking at a flyer my IBM business partner gave me last time we upgraded our box. This is for i5 models, so I'm not sure if it will hold true for whatever you have. Of course, the table doesn't have 1500 CPW, but for both 1000 and 2400, it shows a processor speed of 1.5GHz. For whatever it's worth, I hope this helps.

Thank you for the information Janice. Now if I can only get my hand on one of those flyers.

Max

You might try contacting your IBM business partner, or IBM directly if your company is big enough to talk to royalty. There's nothing in their fliers to compare their processor to Intel's. I doubt they would tell you anyway. Good luck.

Here's the iSeries system handbook.

Hello If you have An AS/400 or iSeries with IBM support you can go to the following web site - http://www.ibm.com/erp/sizing download and fill out the document for your version of JDE and submit it. They will give you the answers to your CPW questions or call your buiness partner and let them do it for you.

The CPW thing was driving me crazy some time ago. I attempted to do a correlation between 1 CPW and MHz. It was difficult to do because IBM didn't publicize some of this stuff.

There's a "loose translation" on CPW to MHz on wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS/400

I say loose because hertz cycle's don't exactly dictate how fast a processor can churn data. It is kind of interesting material. The most recent generatiion of iSeries PowerPC processors supposedly run at ~4 GHz.