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.
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August 19, 2015
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.
August 18, 2015
Linux on System z - Financial Trading demo from LinuxCon
Donna Dillenberger is showing a pure open source demo on the mainframe combining all the new technologies like Spark, MongoDB, Postgres, MariaDB, Node.js, Docker, Chef etc.
It's using live analytics for streams from Twitter and S&P financial data, showing the power of realtime analysis on the mainframe.
She is also providing a look at the infrastrucure driving this and even shows a fail over from one site to another using Hyperswap.
Towards the end she is providing real performance data for some of the components used.
During this presentation your probably want to pause and playback to get all the information she packed into those 18 minutes. Here is a breakdown (minutes:seconds) for reference:
- 0:00: demonstration
- 7:48: a look at the infrastructure
- 11:22: failover by killing one storage subsystem
- 13:45: performance data
- 17:00: agility & summary
August 17, 2015
LinuxCon announcements for Linux on z
Today IBM made some interesting announcements at LinuxCon. I'm going to cover more of the technical stuff in separate posts - this is for the overview.
- Announcement recording on Youtube
- Open Source & ISV Ecosystem Enablement for LinuxONE and IBM z presentation with quite interesting performance results
- IBM press release
- Ubuntu is coming for the mainframe (Mark Shuttleworth joined Ross Mauri on stage today for this announcement)
- KVM for IBM z Systems
- Linux Foundations announces Open Mainframe Project
- A cloud for ISVs to test their applications called Linux Test Drive Program
- A community cloud hosted at Marist and Syracuse university
- White paper Delivering Business Agility with Open Source Solutions on IBM LinuxONE and z Systems
- MongoDB support
- MariaDB blog post