Minecraft on the Mainframe
Joran Siu from the IBM Java team installed Minecraft Server on the mainframe. In this entertaining talk he shows the results and the optimizations used, some of them only available on zEC12 and z13.
Joran Siu from the IBM Java team installed Minecraft Server on the mainframe. In this entertaining talk he shows the results and the optimizations used, some of them only available on zEC12 and z13.
IBM has updated the Node.js environment for the mainframe (SDK) to the latest stable community release (version 0.12.7). You can find it here on developerworks. Besides functional enhancements it also contains an important security update for openssl. The release … Read the rest
The presentations and some demos from the recent conference are availble for download. Besides the general overview presentations, there have been a few more specialized ones this time:
… Read the restThis YouTube video from Paul DiMarzio shows an interesting analytic example from the Hack Spark contest. Thanks Paul for creating this!
On July 22, 2015 Red Hat has announced the availability of RHEL 6.7. The kernel level is now kernel-2.6.32-573.el6, for the main bug fixes see the kernel update description.
As usual there are the release notes and the technical … Read the rest
On July 16th 2015 SUSE has announced the availability of the latest service pack to their SLES11 distribution. This release is a maintenance release, keeping the major kernel version stable. Here is the usual collection of links:
All the supported combinations for IBM storage can be found in the IBM System Storage Interoperation Center (SSIC).
For Linux on z the best way to get the number of combinations down is to first select “IBM z Systems” … Read the rest
In November last year SUSE has announced the availability of their next major distribution release SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES 12). It’s an interesting change in strategy that SUSE chose to release it after the competing RHEL 7 distribution. In … Read the rest
In January 2015 IBM announced the new version of the mainframe called z13. As of March 9th 2015 the successor of the zEC12 is officially available.
z13 glas model – photo Michael Storzer |
This machine has many new features … Read the rest