SHARE San Jose 2017

SHARE 2016 San Antonio

Last week I'be been at SHARE in San Antonio. There was a good turnout and lots of good discussions. Here is the complete agenda. I've already blogged about the best session. Here are a few more:

• Introduction and Positioning of KVM for IBM z Systems
• KVM Concepts and Components for z/VM Lovers
• What's New in the z/VM Hypervisor
• How Do You Spell SMT on z/VM?
• A Look at SMT Performance
• What's New in Linux on z Systems?
• Docker and z Systems
• Linux Performance Tools in 60 Minutes
• z13 Performance with Linux - A One Year Journey

Best session at Winter SHARE 2016: "I Just Bought an IBM z890 - Now What?"

Today at SHARE I had the remarkable experience to listen to a session Connor Krukosky. He's a 18 year old student that bought a z890 on eBay. Here is his story. The first operating system he got running was Linux. Some of the stumbling blocks (e.g. writing a IOCDS) he mentions reminded me from the time 17 years back, when I learned the same things the same way. SHARE has recorded the session. The video is now on YouTube:

(updated 3/29/2016)

Interesting performance presentations at SHARE Orlando 2011

Unfortunately I haven't been able to attend the last SHARE conference. So I looked up the performance pitches in the proceedings for reference. Thanks to SHARE that they publish those. 

Linux: 

• Linux on System z Distribution Performance Update
• Linux Performance on IBM System z Enterprise 

IBM Java:

• Java SDK5, SDK6 and Beyond: A Performance Update 

z/VM:

• z/VM Performance Update 2011
• z/VM Performance Case Studies