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Just be careful with this strategy. When you could start offloading per-socket IBM licensed software to more performant multi-core Intel or POWER CPUs, IBM switched from socket to "Processor Value Units". (Aka "give us more money")

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A single core is not equivalent to a hexa core so I think PVU's make more sense in today's world. What I would like from them is to be more transparent with the requirement to use ILMT.

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