Re: IBM Introduces IBM z14 ZR1 and Rockhopper II Models

2018-04-11 Thread Charles Mills
It is based on an industry-standard 19" server rack rather than a proprietary 
mainframe "frame" (which was perhaps 25"?).

Charles


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On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 15:31:57 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote:

>http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/
>8/897/ENUS118-018/index.html=en_locale=en

One thing that I notice is that is smaller. 2 x 3.5 feet, compared to 2.5 x 5 
feet for the z13s.

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Re: IBM Introduces IBM z14 ZR1 and Rockhopper II Models

2018-04-11 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 15:31:57 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote:

>http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/8/897/ENUS118-018/index.html=en_locale=en

One thing that I notice is that is smaller. 2 x 3.5 feet, compared to 2.5 x 5 
feet for the z13s.

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Re: IBM Introduces IBM z14 ZR1 and Rockhopper II Models

2018-04-10 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 10 Apr 2018 11:43:51 -0500, Dana Mitchell wrote:

>Can anyone else find the US announcement yet?

I see it now.
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/8/897/ENUS118-018/index.html=en_locale=en

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Re: IBM Introduces IBM z14 ZR1 and Rockhopper II Models

2018-04-10 Thread Dana Mitchell
Can anyone else find the US announcement yet?  I haven't gotten the weekly 
iNews IBM announcements email yet.  and if I google and try to access

US - IBM z14 Model ZR1
Published: 10 Apr, 2018 | Document Number: 3907-+01

It seems to have gone 404...

There is a redbook technical introduction available:

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg248550.pdf

Dana 

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Re: IBM Introduces IBM z14 ZR1 and Rockhopper II Models

2018-04-10 Thread Parwez Hamid
There are 2 models/ The ZR1 for the traditional OSes and the LinuxOne Model LR1.

Details of ZR1 M/T 3907

Designed in a 19" Rack, air cooled
Non-raised floor support
Top Exit and/or Bottom Exit Cabling features
PDU based power
Processor Units (PUs) – Feature driven – 6 CPs max, rest can be zIIPs, ICFs, 
IFLs.
Based on the z14 10 core chip running at 4.5 GHz
Full size Uni = 1570* MIPs. 6 CP = 8036* (LSPR data). Smallest Capacity Setting 
A01 = 88 MIPs.
Four CPC drawer features: 
  Max 4 – Single PU SCM, max 4 client configurable cores (8 PUs)
  Max 12 – Two PU SCMs, max 12 client configurable cores (16 PUs)
  Max 24 – Four PU SCMs, max 24 client configurable cores (28 PUs)
  Max 30 – Four PU SCMs, max 30 client configurable cores (34 Pus)
 Two standard SAPs per system
One spare per system (all CPC drawer features)

Memory
Up to 8 TB including (Max memory depends on the number of installed PU SCMs):
System minimum = 64 GB
64 GB fixed HSA separately managed
Maximum for customer use 8128 GB
Virtual Flash Memory – part of main memory: 512 GB per feature, up to four 
features

NO InfiniBand Coupling Links. Only ICA-SR and Coupling Express LR links 
supported

16U Reserved Feature will tag 16U of space in the z14 ZR1 rack as ”available” 
for customers to populate with their choice of IT equipment. Possible examples 
(subject to power/cooling pre-reqs):

 SAN switches
 Network Switches
 Rack mountable HMC and TKE
 Storage devices

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Re: IBM Introduces IBM z14 ZR1 and Rockhopper II Models

2018-04-10 Thread Gadi Ben-Avi
They should be available soon.

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W dniu 2018-04-10 o 12:06, Timothy Sipples pisze:
> IBM is announcing the ZR1 and LR1 single frame machines today, with an
> entirely new physical architecture. Here's a video introduction posted
> on
> YouTube:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7jN5qKsXbc
>
> You can also find some interesting details in my blog post here:
>
> http://millennialmainframer.com/2018/04/ibm-zr1-new/
>
> More to come, including the official announcement letter (which is
> starting to trickle out around the world), specifications, etc. Happy
> Mainframe Day, everyone!

So, in simple English it's small z14 - like z13s, BC12, ...z/800.
ZR1 - good name, completely different from other names. ;-) Are the technical 
details available?
I mean those old boring things like CPU, RAM, I/O...

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Re: IBM Introduces IBM z14 ZR1 and Rockhopper II Models

2018-04-10 Thread R.S.

W dniu 2018-04-10 o 12:06, Timothy Sipples pisze:

IBM is announcing the ZR1 and LR1 single frame machines today, with an
entirely new physical architecture. Here's a video introduction posted on
YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7jN5qKsXbc

You can also find some interesting details in my blog post here:

http://millennialmainframer.com/2018/04/ibm-zr1-new/

More to come, including the official announcement letter (which is starting
to trickle out around the world), specifications, etc. Happy Mainframe Day,
everyone!


So, in simple English it's small z14 - like z13s, BC12, ...z/800.
ZR1 - good name, completely different from other names. ;-)
Are the technical details available?
I mean those old boring things like CPU, RAM, I/O...

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IBM Introduces IBM z14 ZR1 and Rockhopper II Models

2018-04-10 Thread Timothy Sipples
IBM is announcing the ZR1 and LR1 single frame machines today, with an
entirely new physical architecture. Here's a video introduction posted on
YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7jN5qKsXbc

You can also find some interesting details in my blog post here:

http://millennialmainframer.com/2018/04/ibm-zr1-new/

More to come, including the official announcement letter (which is starting
to trickle out around the world), specifications, etc. Happy Mainframe Day,
everyone!


Timothy Sipples
IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM Z & LinuxONE,
Multi-Geography
E-Mail: sipp...@sg.ibm.com

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