The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
... "tap out at around 27,000 mips" IBM leaks details of new z10 Enterprise Class mainframe http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid80_gci1301967,00.html Other features of the new big iron new offering include the following: * a quad-core mainframe central processor previously called the z6; * fixed hardware storage area (HSA) of 16 GB, so users won't have to sacrifice memory for HSA any longer; * an integrated hardware decimal floating-point processor to aid with financial and enterprise resource planning applications; * a reduction in power-on reset (POR), which could enable the ability to reassign additional logical partition (LPAR) resources without compromising application performance; and * a feature called HiperDispatch, the details of which are unclear. ... snip ... it has been 40yrs since (virtual machine) cp67 was "announced" at the spring share in houston. i was undergraduate at university when three people had come out from the science center http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech to install cp67 the last week of jan68. as a result, i got asked to go to houston and participate in the announcement. share is next week in orlando http://www.share.org/events/Orlando/index.cfm one of next week's (two) themes is virtualization: http://www.share.org/events/Orlando/second_postcard.cfm#virtual Featured sessions covering network and storage virtualization as well as System z virtualization include: * IBM Transformation: Major IT Consolidation Initiative for Project Big Green * Using Virtualization to Consolidate Servers * The Role of Storage Virtualization in Enterprise Class Computing Using VSM from Sun * Preparing to Successfully Deploy and Exploit Virtualization * Data Centers of the Future: The Impact of High Density Computing * The Role of Storage Virtualization in Enterprise Computing * Introduction to Network Virtualization * Details of SAN Virtualization – Today and in the Future * Preparing to Successfully Deploy and Execute Virtualization * IBM Transformation: Major IT Consolidation Initiative ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
