I think the question is about Linux Foundation Open Mainframe Project
in partnership with a bunch of people.

http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2015/08/linux-foundation-brings-together-industry-heavyweights-advance

https://www.openmainframeproject.org/

Regards,

Dimitri.

On 12 December 2015 at 01:27, John Campbell <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hmmm...
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_mainframe
>
> That's entirely different from what I thought it was.
>
> Neverrrrrr Minnnnnnndddd
>
> -soup
>
> On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 8:23 PM, John Campbell <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Open Mainframe?  News to me.
>>
>> Mainframes require three criteria:
>>
>> 1) Maximum *reliable* single-thread performance (see the "Linux on S/390"
>> redbook "Appendix A" for how reliability is tricked out);
>> 2) Maximum I/O throughput; and
>> 3) Maximum I/O connectivity.
>>
>> Admittedly, criterion 3 is kind of undercut by SAN technology.
>>
>> Additionally, the instruction set need not mimic the zSeries to be a
>> mainframe.  We already know that handling memory access faults in IBM's SS
>> instructions for virtual machine functionality that much harder to pull
>> off...
>>
>> Now you've all just added to my reading list.
>>
>> (laughs maniacally)
>>
>> "You are the MS-DOS of Evil...   Only 640K... Not EVIL Enough!"
>>
>> -soup
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 6:39 PM, Christer Solskogen <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I haven't seen that been discussed here. Are any of you guys involved
>>> somehow?
>>>
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>
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> Regardless
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>  somewhere, there is meat in the loop." - me
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