On Friday, 12/17/2021 at 02:42 GMT, "Peter Bishop" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > asking for a prospective customer...some of you no doubt remember Hoplon > back in 2007 using a Cell processor blade in their z9... > > The question: is anything similar possible with LinuxONE/z15? I'm > pretty sure it's not, but am curious. This prospect envisages using > LinuxONE for "gaming" type applications, and is interested in using > PCIe-based cards a la the Cell Broadband Engine used by Hoplon way back > when. If it's "not on", so be it, but if it were possible we will have > a net new Z client here in Oz. I did mention to them the NVMe drive > holder, but that didn't interest them. Perhaps this might work via an > RPQ...
Do you mean plugging an arbitrary PCIe card into the machine? No. RPQ would be the way to go, IMO. Alan Altmark Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant IBM Systems Lab Services IBM Z Delivery Practice ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 mobile; 607.321.7556 [email protected] IBM Endicott ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
