zMan doesn't speak for me. Chipster
From: zMan <zedgarhoo...@gmail.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 08/29/2012 11:19 AM Subject: Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Lynn: This has nothing to do with EC12, or top-mounted cables. Are you generating these posts programmatically? Please stop if so. You have some interesting things to contirbute, but random word-matching doesn't qualify. On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <l...@garlic.com>wrote: > john.mck...@healthmarkets.com (McKown, John) writes: > > Why am I getting a vision of Medusa? Or perhaps a sea anemone? > > Tentacles reaching out to entrap prey. Pity the small servers in the > > room, getting lashed with FICON cables. <GRIN> > > IBM 1991 (power) cluster scaleup with fiber-channel (FICON is layered on > top of base fiber-channel standard) was in fact code-named *MEDUSA* > ... old email (fiber-channel was common use in non-mainframe long before > FICON): > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa > > the cluster scaleup for commercial (128 systems), also referenced here > regarding early jan1992 meeting in ellison's conference room > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13 > > as part of IBM's ha/cmp product ... old posts > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp > > mainframe DB2 were complaining that if I was allowed to continue, it > would be a minimum of five years (if not decades) ahead of them. the > issue was this predated IBM's non-mainframe DB2 products, so had to go > to other vendors to get RDBMS on IBM's non-mainframes. These vendors > tended to have relatively common source base for both their vax-cluster > and unix platforms ... so the issue was to adapt their vax-cluster > support to unix platform and scale it up. > > possibly within hrs of the last "medusa" email end of jan92, the > cluster-scaleup was transferred and we were told that we couldn't work > on anything with more than four processors. A couple weeks later, it was > announced as supercomputer for numerical intensive only ... press from > 17Feb1992 for *scientifica nd technical only* > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters1 > another press item fro 11May1992 > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters2 > > nearly 20yrs later ... "From the Annals of Release No Software Before > Its Time" (Power DB2 with cluster of 100 systems) > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#43 > > rebranded pureScale ... > http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28593.wss > > current tpc-c (rdbms) results/rankings > http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_perf_results.asp > > -- > virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ******* This message may contain confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee(s) named above and may contain information that is legally privileged. If you are not the addressee, or the person responsible for delivering it to the addressee, you are hereby notified that reading, disseminating, distributing or copying this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message by mistake, please immediately notify us by replying to the message and delete the original message immediately thereafter. Thank you. ******* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
