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In July 2017, with another generation of products, the official family was changed to IBM Z from IBM z Systems; the IBM Z family will soon include the newest model, the IBM z17, as well as the z16, z15, z14, and z13 (released under the IBM z Systems/IBM System z names), the IBM zEnterprise models (in common use the zEC12 and z196), the IBM ...
The z14 is a microprocessor made by IBM for their z14 mainframe computers, announced on July 17, 2017. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] Manufactured at GlobalFoundries ' East Fishkill, New York fabrication plant. [ 1 ] IBM stated that it is the world's fastest microprocessor by clock rate at 5.2 GHz, [ 2 ] with a 10% increased performance per core and 30% for the ...
The z16 introduced the Neural-network-processing-assist facility, [6] [7] which introduces several instructions performing operations on model-dependent data types. For the z16 this is the 16-bit NNP-Data-Type-1 Format. The new instruction provide tensor operations useful for AI and neural network applications.
IBM's Poughkeepsie site is where the z16 mainframe is tested and manufactured, continuing a six-decade history of mainframes at the site.
IBM Z Development and Test Environment can be used for education, demonstration, and development and test of applications that include mainframe components. The Z390 and zCOBOL is a portable macro assembler and COBOL compiler, linker, and emulator toolkit providing a way to develop, test, and deploy mainframe compatible assembler and COBOL ...
A mainframe computer, informally called a mainframe or big iron, [1] is a computer used primarily by large organizations for critical applications like bulk data processing for tasks such as censuses, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and large-scale transaction processing.
DOS/VS was released in 1972. The first DOS/VS release was numbered "Release 28" to signify an incremental upgrade from DOS/360. [9] It added virtual memory in support of the new System/370 series hardware. It used a fixed page table which mapped a single address space of up to 16 megabytes for all partitions combined.
Think Blue Linux was an early mainframe distribution consisting mainly of Red Hat packages added to the IBM kernel. [3] Commercial Linux distributors introduced mainframe editions very quickly after the initial kernel work. IBM manager Karl-Heinz Strassemeyer of Böblingen in Germany was the main lead to get Linux running on S/390. [4]