Re: Once upon a time......

' on the z chip seems to be the current trend. Regards Parwez Hamid​ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Dave Jones Sent: 21 August 2022 19:17 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Once upon a time.. IBM was known for making some really nice

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"Now if someone could loan me a z15 or z16 we might be able to try this outselves. :-)" Once upon a time IBM would do this, maybe not a z15 but a z16 if the project was viable. for 2 POC projects I was involved in we used a 4340 or a 41 I forget, as a CADCAM  CATIA processor

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Seems we may be closer than we thought to getting this done. There is already a whole chapter in the CP Planning and Administration Guide (Chapter 17. Using PCIe Functions for z/VM Guests) showing how to set up a device on the PCI.e bus. Now if someone could loan me a z15 or z16 we might be

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Many thanks for sharing everyone's thoughts on this matter. I think that there are a lot of applications that could benefit from having access to the capabilities of a GPU or two (or ten:-), maybe not as a replacement or competitor for large Intel-based supercomputers, of course.

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"Funny you should mention it." On April 5, 2022, IBM announced the IBM z16 with new IBM Telum Processors. Every main processor chip on the IBM z16 is equipped with a new AI accelerator section. Here's the list of operations supported on the AI accelerator: LSTM Activation GRU Activation Fused

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AIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Phil Smith III > Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2022 1:37 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Once upon a time.. > > Dave Jones wrote about attaching GPU cards to a Z to make it a super-number > cruncher. > > > >

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Charles wrote, in part: Although, isn't @Dave's idea more or less what IBM has done with AI and the z16? Coupled specialized processors to a Z? >Although, isn't @Dave's idea more or less what IBM has done with AI and the >z16? Coupled specialized processors to a Z? Seems like it, though I'm

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Correction: Just realized the z Decimal Floating point is also based on the IEEE 754 Standard as well, so "IEEE floating point" also includes decimal floating point and encompasses all the Decimal Floating Point formats and arithmetic instructions too.      Joel C. Ewing On 8/21/22 17:29,

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Actually "IEEE floating point" is rather specific. z-architecture now supports the original Hex Floating Point (HFP) data formats, plus the newer Binary Floating Point (BFP) and Decimal Floating Point (DFP) formats.  BFP is based on IEEE binary floating point standards, and should be

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t: Sunday, August 21, 2022 1:37 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Once upon a time.. Dave Jones wrote about attaching GPU cards to a Z to make it a super-number cruncher. What's the problem you're trying to solve? Cheap Intel MIPS being too inexpensive? Seriously, I've never h

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al Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2022 1:37 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Once upon a time.. Dave Jones wrote about attaching GPU cards to a Z to make it a super-number

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On 8/21/22 12:17 PM, Dave Jones wrote: Now I am wondering if, perhaps, the time is right for IBM to re-consider that decision. On modern z processors, we already have IEEE floating point instructions in the hardware, Linux (a popular options for Intel-base number-crunch systems), and support

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Dave Jones wrote about attaching GPU cards to a Z to make it a super-number cruncher. What's the problem you're trying to solve? Cheap Intel MIPS being too inexpensive? Seriously, I've never heard anyone say "I'd put this numeric-intensive application on zSystems but they're just too slow".

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Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2022 2:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Once upon a time.. On Sun, 21 Aug 2022 13:17:41 -0500, Dave Jone wrote: >

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On Sun, 21 Aug 2022 13:17:41 -0500, Dave Jone wrote: >IBM was known for making some really nice scientific number-crunching systems. > > (But almost a decade old.) Does "nice" mean to you "360-compatible"? -- gil

Once upon a time......

IBM was known for making some really nice scientific number-crunching systems. The 7090-7094, the S/360-195 and the follow-on s/370-195, the array processor 3838 and the vector instruction set supported by the 30xx models come to mind. Over time, and with the rise of the Intel-based chips and