What Rich is referring to here is "Test Plan Charlie", 44K+ Linux guests under VM/ESA on a 9672 G5 (I think), done by Dr. David Boyes, Sine Nomine Assoc. in the 2000-2001 time frame.
DJ On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:19:20 -0600, Rich Smrcina <[email protected]> wrote: >Linux on the mainframe was made available almost 10 years ago >(Christmas, 1999). The experiment you are referring to was done shortly >after that. > >Yeah... a 'few' years ago, but a *lot* has changed since then. > >Staller, Allan wrote: >> IIRC, an experiment was done a few years back to see how many Linux >> images could be started in an IFL using z/VM. IIRC, HW resources ran out >> before the software architecture limits were reached. ISTR > 32k images >> running concurrently (no useful work, just how many can be started). >> >> As to Linux images doing useful work, the answer is "it depends". >> >> HTH, >> > > >-- >Rich Smrcina >Phone: 414-491-6001 >http://www.linkedin.com/in/richsmrcina > >Catch the WAVV! http://www.wavv.org >WAVV 2010 - Apr 9-13, 2010 Covington, KY > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO >Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
