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System z Hardware – Specialty Engines

System z Hardware – Specialty Engines. David E Brown daveb@us.ibm.com. IBM System z. z10 EC. z10 BC. Evolution of System z Specialty Engines. Specialty Engines reduce the Total Cost of Ownership for System z. IBM System z Integrated Information Processor (IBM zIIP) 2006.

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System z Hardware – Specialty Engines

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  1. System z Hardware – Specialty Engines David E Brown daveb@us.ibm.com IBM System z z10 EC z10 BC

  2. Evolution of System z Specialty Engines Specialty Engines reduce the Total Cost of Ownership for System z. IBM System z Integrated Information Processor (IBM zIIP) 2006 System z Application Assist Processor (zAAP) 2004 Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) 2000 System Assist Processor (SAP) 1994 I/O Internal Coupling Facility (ICF) 1997

  3. Two very important Total Cost of Ownership Facts • There are no Software Costs for SAP, ICF, zAAP, zIIP Usage! • All ICFs, IFLs, zAAPs, and zIIPs are carried over to all System z Upgrades withou cost! • All Specialty Engines run at full speed on sub-capacity Servers!

  4. Technology roadmap to deliver client value • Flexibility • Performance • Lower cost • New functionality • Efficiency The next evolution of IBM Mainframe computers Integrating and managing architectures to provide the most efficient and effective delivery of IT capability Integrated or network attached Accelerators Delivering new functionality Increasing efficiencies Enabling new solutions IBM System z10 The world’s most powerful enterprise computing platform Performance Capacity Resilience Responsiveness LOW COST OF OWNERSHIP ICFs IFLs zAAPs zIIPs SAPs

  5. Other System z “Specialty Engines” Coprocessor Accelerator System z Crypto Express2Configuration Cell Broadband Engine SOD

  6. System z10 PU Chips & Packaging PU 2 PU 1 PU 0 SC 1 SC 0 z10 EC & BC PU Chip Quad Core 4 PUs (Cores) PU 4 PU 3 z10 EC Multi-Chip Module (MCM)

  7. Poll Question Do you have z10 EC or BC Servers installed at any of your customers?

  8. PU 2 PU 1 PU 0 SC 1 SC 0 S 2 S 0 PU 4 PU 3 S 3 S 1 System z PU Types and Characterization Features • Central Processor (CP) -Provides processing capacity for z/Architecture instruction set • Runs z/OS, z/VM, VSE/ESA, TPF • Integrated Facility for Linux (IFL) - Feature -Provides additional processing capacity exclusively for Linux workloads -Runs Linux or Linux under z/VM Version 4 or Version 5 • Internal Coupling Facility (ICF) - Feature -Provides additional processing capacity exclusively for the execution of the Coupling Facility Control Code (CFCC) in a CF LPAR • IBM System z Application Assist Processor (zAAP) - Feature on z10/z9/z990/z890 -Java Virtual Machine (JVM) under z/OS - first exploiter -Requires z/OS 1.6 • System Assist Processors (SAPs) -Standard and Opt SAPs do I/O processing in the channel subsystem • System z Integrated Information Processor(zIIP) -Requires z10, orz9 BC and EC and z/OS V6 -DB2 V8 first exploiter -Serving XML Data, Remote Mirroring, ISV support, etc • Spare PUs – Not orderable -Available (unassigned) PUs on all System z Servers -Support “Transparent Sparing” for other PU types

  9. System z Configuration Process • eConfig is a PC based tool for System z order generation (Techline) • Systems Assurance (SA) is required for all System z orders • PUs are not orderable – only CPs, SAPs, ICFs, IFLs, zIIPs, zAAPs • All z10 EC Serves will have 2 Spare PUs • z10 BC can have from 0 to 7 Spare PUs • Techline should be used for Server Capacity Analysis • zPCR • CP3000 • Resource Link available for System z Hardware Planning

  10. Learning Points – System z Class Overview • Specialty Engines reduce the Total Cost of Ownership for System z.. • All Specialty Engines run at full speed on sub-capacity Servers! • All ICFs, IFLs, zAAPs, and zIIPs are carried over to all System z Upgrades without cost! • Specialty Engines play a key role in IBM’s System z Cost & Value strategy. • IFLs support Linux or Linux under z/VM exclusively. • ICF’s Support Coupling Facilty Control Code (CFCC – for Parallel Sysplex) exclusively. • zAAPs supprort Java processing under z/OS. • zIIPs were first supported by DB2. • All PU chips for System z10 Servers contain 4 PUs (Cores). • Techline should be used for System z10 Capacity Analysis and for Order Configurations.

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