IBM already has very capable hardware available. They probably already have a nice z emulator that runs on power hardware, just not the software licensing in order to run z/OS on it.
An IBM Power8 S824 machine, 4u in height, 24 3.5gh cores, 2T memory, 7 PCIe card slots could run a modest sized z/OS installation indeed. Dana On Wed, 24 Jan 2018 08:05:53 -0600, Mike Schwab <[email protected]> wrote: > >Has any IBM engineers considered experimenting with z/CPUs & >z/Channels & Crypto cards built with FPGAs? Might be ready for z/16, >z/15 would probably be too soon. Maybe a Micro z/15 on a 1U or 2U >blade server with 16/32 FICON on the back? 2-4 LPARS max? Maybe even >fits into a slot in a DS8xxx storage box? > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
