Hardware
Topics: Client
Server vs. Mainframe, Why IBM?,
Data Center, Hardware,
Databases, Implementation
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Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor
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Parallel Sysplex clusters via high speed coupling
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Cryptographic CoProcessor ( DES, Triple DES, RSA, Public Key all via hardware
)
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Supports Gigabit Ethernet
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Fast Ethernet Auto-sensing
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ATM Network features
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Supports Jumbo packet frame size
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OS/390 is a Unix platform
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Up to 24 Fibre Channel connections which each support 4000 I/O operations
per second
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SYSPLEX timer is shared for synchronization and accurate time-stamping
of database transactions
This list of features was compiled from the IBM
S/390 reference guide.
The System 390 Enterprise Server can be networked with IBM AS400's
in the field offices for a powerful network.
Overview on IBM's AS400 homepage
An excellent reference guide for AS400 developers is >> Intro
to the AS400
Examples of AS400 Global
Solutions shows the versatility of mini-computers.
The Redbooks are "How To"
guides on a vast number of topics such as OS/390 Global Server Certificates
and
logical partitioning of AS/400's.
RS/6000
HP is ideally used for web serving, e-business, online transaction
proccesing or database serving
RS/6000
SP A supercomputer capable of a trillion instructions per second.
Links to IBM related
sites will help you find out about the many other products they offer.
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Author: Mark Wittman , links are to IBM