Bill, send me airfare and I'll be there! :-)
This does look like a really good meeting.....I am most interested in
hearing details of exactly how they are integrating the Cell engine with
the zSeries mainframe (and z/VM, too). I suspect that, at the moment,
the integration takes the form of Linux guests under z/VM sharing DASD,
via NFS or something similar, with the Cell-based blade servers (also
running Linux, btw). How the computational tasks are shared amongst the
processors I haven't a clue....
DJ
Bill Munson wrote:
Dave,
Come to New York at the end of the Month and you can ask the CEO of
Hoplon those questions your self. ;>)
Linux on System z Executive Advisory Council
IBM Corporation
590 Madison Avenue, 12th Floor Room 1219
New York City
Friday, September 28, 9 AM 12:30 PM
Youre invited to join us for the next session of the Linux on System z
Executive Advisory Council. We launched this council in 2002 in order
to garner your insights and foster communications among the System z
Linux community. We are excited to welcome Tarquinio Teles, CEO of
Hoplon of Brazil which has embarked on a project to integrate the Cell
Broadband Engine with the IBM System z Mainframe . We will also discuss
z/VM as it compares to other virtualization technologies, System z
architecture as it compares to RISC architecture, and the major
announcement made by IBM to consolidate 3900 of its
own distributed servers to Linux on System z under z/VM from a business,
technical, and financial
perspective.
Agenda
8:30 am Arrival and Continental Breakfast
9:00 am Opening Remarks & IBM Major Project Green Server Consolidation
Len Santalucia, IBM Americas System z Linux Impact Team
9:15 am Comparison of Virtualization Technologies
Reed Mullen, Software Prod Mgr System z Virtualization Technology
10:15 am Architectural Comparison of System z vs RISC
Rory Canellis, Competive Intelligence Analyst, Systems z Marketing
11:15 am BitVerse Financial Analysis Algorithym, Virtual Conferencing
Center, GameFrame on IBM System z Linux, z/VM & Cell BE Technologies
Tarquinio Teles, CEO of Hoplon
12:00 pm Open Discussion with all speakers & Plan next session
12:30 pm Close and Departure
RSVP Andy Greco [EMAIL PROTECTED], (603)472-4169 or Len Santalucia:
[EMAIL PROTECTED], (212) 493-5957.
Bill Munson
VM System Programmer
Office of Information Technology
State of New Jersey
(609) 984-4065
President MVMUA
http://www.marist.edu/~mvmua
Dave Jones wrote:
(Sorry for the cross-posting, but I thought both lists would like to
read about this....)
Here's an interesting article about how Brazilian companies are using
IBM mainframes in new and, shall we say, unique ways....
"Joe Clabby's Brazilian mainframe adventure travel log",
(http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid80_gci1271026,00.html?track=NL-576&ad=603746&asrc=EM_NLT_2178510)
(and watch out for line wrap on that long URL above....)
It has some interesting additional information about how Hoplon
Infotainment, the Brazilian online gaming outfit, is using an IBM
mainframe and a cluster of Cel based blade servers to provide for a very
rich and full featured gaming environment. And, as was suspected, z/VM
is being used on the mainframe to provide virtual gaming environments on
demand. One thing that I found a bit confusing was the statement
...."The primary advantage that IBM mainframe architecture delivers to
Hoplon is cross-platform common memory management. By pooling memory
across multiple mainframes, the company can better support the large and
transient user populations that move in and out of various worlds and
through various communities...." I wonder how they got z/VM to manage
memory across multiple mainframes...I must have missed that SHARE
presentation last month....:-)
There is one bit of not-so-good news in the article....the writer points
out how few people it takes to get and keep a z/VM system up and
running...in one case 2, and another only 5. Not a real growth field it
appears.....
Have a good one.
--
DJ
V/Soft
