> >Would be a clever way to actually make the zAAP specialty engine useful > >to a z/VM system. Someone would have to write a Java operating system, > >and I don't know if the zAAPs can actually do I/O. Still, SET MACHINE > >JAVA would be interesting. > Except that the zAAP would only be relevant if you already had one you > no longer needed. An IFL and a zAAP are marketing devices, but the same > Java code will run at the same speed on an IFL as a zAAP on the same box, > so why would you want a zAAP on a box that has an IFL?
In case you had people smoking the Java on z/OS pipe, it redeems the dedicated processor core for z/OS Java by making the horsepower sharable between LPARs. Since "VM LPARS" on a z10 can be diverse processor types nowadays, you'd get to use the capacity that z/OS only partially uses for other useful guest work.
