Here's a nice quick intro to C programming on IBM mainframes :-).
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
IBM z/OS - OS/390 UNIX on zSeries Mainframe Development - C89
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Labels: Mainframe, MVS, OS/390, Software Development, UNIX, z/OS
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
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Labels: Clustering, Enterprise, Hardware, Mainframe
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
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Labels: Clustering, HPC, Linux, Mainframe, Open Source, Sun
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.
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
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