On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 6:28 AM, Binyamin Dissen <[email protected] > wrote:
> Did not find the link to the new POPs. > And I am eager to see it too, due to this: <quote> z/OS V2.2 XML System Services is planned to use the new vector (SIMD) instructions available on z13 processors. This function, also available on z/OS V2.1 with the PTF for APAR OA44545, is intended to help improve the performance for nonvalidating XML parsing for some documents. </quote> SIMD, to me, means instructions akin to the old vector facility on a few of the previous machines. I'm still don't understand why IBM doesn't use GPU processing as is done on many Intel boxes. My only guess is that they don't consider the current GPUs to be reliable enough. But, IMO, they should at least embrace the OpenCL paradigm ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCL ). This might help people to convert to z/OS. Of course, there is still that nasty EBCDIC issue for any conversion. -- While a transcendent vocabulary is laudable, one must be eternally careful so that the calculated objective of communication does not become ensconced in obscurity. In other words, eschew obfuscation. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
