I believe Marist is involved, but through my boss, Harry Williams. I haven't been directly involved, but still do support zLinux servers for Linux Foundation projects.
Martha On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 20:52:36 -0500 Bryan Foley said: >The Open Mainframe Project is a project set up by the Linux Foundation to >promote and grow the capabilities of Linux meeting current and future >demands of the digital economy. It is intended to bring together clients - >who are looking to marry the openness and agility of the open world, with >the enterprise-grade capabilities of a server that can meet those demands >like z Systems and LinuxONE - with vendors and academia to deliver upon the >requirements needed to drive forward the state of the art. > >Steven Dickens (steven.dick...@us.ibm.com) has led this initiative for IBM >(one of many members), and can provide more information. It would be great >for the members on this mailing list to be part of this initiative. > > >Bryan Foley >Program Director, z Systems Strategy & Linux for z Systems Business Line >Manager >Internet: fol...@us.ibm.com >Tieline: 293-5955/External: (845) 433-5955 > > > > >----- Forwarded by Bryan Foley/Poughkeepsie/IBM on 12/11/2015 20:44 ----- > >From: John Campbell <soup...@gmail.com> >To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU >Date: 12/11/2015 20:24 >Subject: Re: OpenMainframeProject >Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU> > > > >Open Mainframe? News to me. > >Mainframes require three criteria: > >1) Maximum *reliable* single-thread performance (see the "Linux on S/390" >redbook "Appendix A" for how reliability is tricked out); >2) Maximum I/O throughput; and >3) Maximum I/O connectivity. > >Admittedly, criterion 3 is kind of undercut by SAN technology. > >Additionally, the instruction set need not mimic the zSeries to be a >mainframe. We already know that handling memory access faults in IBM's SS >instructions for virtual machine functionality that much harder to pull >off... > >Now you've all just added to my reading list. > >(laughs maniacally) > >"You are the MS-DOS of Evil... Only 640K... Not EVIL Enough!" > >-soup > >On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Christer Solskogen < >christer.solsko...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I haven't seen that been discussed here. Are any of you guys involved >> somehow? >> >> -- >> chs >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or >> visit >> http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For more information on Linux on System z, visit >> http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ >> > > > >-- >John R. Campbell Speaker to Machines souperb at gmail dot >com >MacOS X proved it was easier to make Unix user-friendly than to fix Windows >"It doesn't matter how well-crafted a system is to eliminate errors; >Regardless > of any and all checks and balances in place, all systems will fail >because, > somewhere, there is meat in the loop." - me > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or >visit >http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux on System z, visit >http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit >http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For more information on Linux on System z, visit >http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
