>>> On 5/13/2009 at 3:16 PM, Alan Ackerman <[email protected]> wrote: > Someone here says we should not do Linux on zSeries because you cannot do > "stateless computing" on zSeries.
Ask them to defend that statement. What do they know that shows it can't be done on System z? Then dismantle their bad assumptions. Ask them to show you _their_ implementation. Oh, they don't have one? When will they? When I was working at EDS, there was a project to do something very much like this, using midrange equipment. A lot of expensive hardware was involved, such as Infiniband, and Infiniband switches, etc. Looked like something out of the movie Alien. Even the midrange support folks were unsure about it's reliability. > I found some links: > > Stateless Linux at <http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StatelessLinux>. > > Linux on IBM eServer zSeries and S/390: Large Scale Linux Deployment > SG24-6824-00 at <http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246824.html?Open>. > > It is from 2002, though. Is there a more recent version? There's this: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4322.html > Has anyone had any experience with building a stateless Linux on zSeries? Nationwide has come pretty close. Penn State is getting close as well. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
