40 Introduction to the New Mainframe: Large-Scale Commercial Computing
A more detailed discussion on what scalability means and why it is important can
be found in the paper entitled “Scaling—Up and Out”, which is available at the
following site:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp0436.html
The workload management function is a software piece that plays an important
role in the management of these different workload types, and thus on the
scalability of a system.
3.2.2 Scalability influences
Scalability refers to the ability of a system to provide nondisruptive growth path in
order to handle the projected explosion in computing demand. Scalability
includes not only processor power, but also processor memory, I/O bandwidth,
the ability to ...