John, Infiniband is used a lot in z10 BC (same in EC). There are four types of fanout cards from CPC drawer. Only one is non-Infiniband, it is ICB-4. You have two types of IB-oprical for coupling links and one IB-copper which connects CPC drawer to I/O drawers. Obviously connection from CPC to I/O is transparent for operanting system. Infiniband on z10 does not connect to storage.
There will be System z10 BC Technical Overview (sg24-7632) available in couple of hours. Marian Gasparovic IBM Slovakia On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 3:22 PM, John McKown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm looking at the announcement. But, being a bit ignorant, there are some > features which I don't know what they are. Any help? > > Enhanced Application Preservation? > > Enhanced Firmware Simulation? (is that "better/faster" millicode?) > > Partial memory restart? > > Pseudo random number generator (PRNG)? I know that a PRNG is, but does this > mean there is some extra hardware support for it (Linux /dev/random ?). > > InfiniBand Host Bus: I am somewhat aware of what this is. What software > supports it? z/VM & Linux only? Or z/OS and z/VSE as well? What about in the > future? From later in the list, is this only for Coupling Facility links? > > -- > John > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
