Take a tour of the IBM z15 system, including details and photos of the machine's key components.
9/22/2019 · Elizabeth K. Joseph
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This post provides a detailed tour of the IBM z15 system's internal components, including its 19" rack form factor, multi-frame configurations (up to four frames), processor details (Single Chip Module with 12 cores, 9.2 billion transistors), memory capacity (40TB), PCIe control units, I/O offload processors, and LPARs. It highlights the air-cooled and water-cooled options, and details specific components like the CPC drawers, Crypto Express7S cryptographic accelerator card, FICON Express, zHyperLink, and RoCe card. The post emphasizes the performance improvements from moving compression and encryption functions to the chip level and the significance of the 19" form factor for broader adoption.