December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
228 pages
6h 20m
English
book
Introduction to the New Mainframe: Large-Scale Commercial Computing
by Mike Ebbers, Pilar Gonzalez Adrados, Frank Byrne, Rodney Martin, Jon Veilleux
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46 Introduction to the New Mainframe: Large-Scale Commercial Computing
• An additional System Assist Processor (SAP®) to be used by the
channel subsystem.
• A System z9™ Application Assist Processor (zAAP).
• A System z9 Integrated Information Processor (zIIP), which will allow
certain functions of DB2 database processing to be off-loaded.
16 GB to 128 GB of physical memory. The memory grows in 16 GB
increments.
Four memory bus adapters, supporting up to 16 self-timed interconnects to
the I/O cages, with a maximum bandwidth of 43.2 GB per second.
IBM System z has the memory bandwidth required for running large diverse
workloads typical with large-scale commercial needs, or with server
consolidation.
Each PU has 512 KB of L1 cache and each ...
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