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necessary to have a single CPC capable of handling one application’s peak workload and
then be underutilized during less busy periods.
Greater capacity
Certainly when the sysplex was first introduced, one of the chief benefits was the
increased throughput that could be attained by applying the power of two, three, or even
thirty-two CPCs to a logically single workload. This is, of course, still true today. Even
though the power of a single CPC has increased dramatically since 1990, so has the
application workload. In fact, this increased power has led many businesses to develop
new applications that were not possible with the smaller, slower, and multi-image
processing ...