Showing posts with label Mainframe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mainframe. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

IBM z/OS - OS/390 UNIX on zSeries Mainframe Development - C89

Here's a nice quick intro to C programming on IBM mainframes :-).

Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Play with a Cray

Want access to a Cray supercomputer? Ask Cyber-Cray for access.



Visit http://www.cray-cyber.org and request access to their machines.

$ uname -a
sn5176 sn5176 9.0.2.2 sin.0 CRAY Y-MP

Saturday, December 22, 2007

6000 CPU Linux Cluster in a single 20KW machine

"SiCortex 5832 is a 5-teraflop single-unit supercomputer."
Bet that got your attention.

"It uses low-power, custom 64-bit MIPS-processor packages, which are basically entire computers on a single chip. 5832 processor cores and 8TB of RAM in one chassis, which draws less than 20 kilowatts of power."



"The SiCortex systems are completely open source, even down to the microcode."

They even say it runs a modified version of *cough* Gentoo Linux and the (now Sun) Lustre Filesystem.

SiCortex also offers a 72 CPU desktop machine that's as big.. well, as a desktop machine :-).

Say hell yes to Desktop HPC:



Read more about their Kautz digraph based fabric and implementation here:
http://www.sicortex.com/products/white_papers

Sunday, December 09, 2007

My very own DEC minicomputer - sort of

SIMH is a highly portable, multi-system simulator maintained by Bob Supnik, former DEC engineer and vice president. SIMH runs on pretty much anything: UNIX, BSD, Linux, Windows and even OpenVMS. If you're into historic computing, simulation of historic hardware or trying to migrate some really ancient applications, look into SIMH.

SIMH can also be used to migrate old machines to new platforms. For example, you can run VMS/VAX using SIMH on a modern UNIX system (Vienna's city administration still runs some VMS / VAX systems, and has started migrating them via emulation).



You can even run modern operating systems on SIMH - like OpenBSD/vax.



SIMH implements simulators for:

  • Data General Nova, Eclipse
  • Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-1, PDP-4, PDP-7, PDP-8, PDP-9, PDP-10, PDP-11, PDP-15, VAX
  • GRI Corporation GRI-909
  • IBM 1401, 1620, 1130, 7090/7094, System 3
  • Interdata (Perkin-Elmer) 16b and 32b systems
  • Hewlett-Packard 2114, 2115, 2116, 2100, 21MX
  • Honeywell H316/H516
  • MITS Altair 8800, with both 8080 and Z80
  • Royal-Mcbee LGP-30, LGP-21
  • Scientific Data Systems SDS 940