The IBM z17 Water-and-Air-Cooled Performance Brief and LSPR Overview
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Please join us for an insightful discussion on the Large System Performance Reference (LSPR) ratings and hardware performance drivers of the new IBM z17 mainframe, including the brand new z17 Air-Cooled offerings. Topics include relative processor capacity, cross-generation caching and memory topologies, simultaneous multi-threading (SMT), subcapacity models, offering comparisons and workload variability.
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