The Open Mainframe Project is a project set up by the Linux Foundation to promote and grow the capabilities of Linux meeting current and future demands of the digital economy. It is intended to bring together clients - who are looking to marry the openness and agility of the open world, with the enterprise-grade capabilities of a server that can meet those demands like z Systems and LinuxONE - with vendors and academia to deliver upon the requirements needed to drive forward the state of the art.
Steven Dickens ([email protected]) has led this initiative for IBM (one of many members), and can provide more information. It would be great for the members on this mailing list to be part of this initiative. Bryan Foley Program Director, z Systems Strategy & Linux for z Systems Business Line Manager Internet: [email protected] Tieline: 293-5955/External: (845) 433-5955 ----- Forwarded by Bryan Foley/Poughkeepsie/IBM on 12/11/2015 20:44 ----- From: John Campbell <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 12/11/2015 20:24 Subject: Re: OpenMainframeProject Sent by: Linux on 390 Port <[email protected]> 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? > > -- > chs > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For more information on Linux on System z, visit > http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ > -- John R. Campbell Speaker to Machines souperb at gmail dot com MacOS X proved it was easier to make Unix user-friendly than to fix Windows "It doesn't matter how well-crafted a system is to eliminate errors; Regardless of any and all checks and balances in place, all systems will fail because, somewhere, there is meat in the loop." - me ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
