Cluster architectures and S/390 Parallel Sysplex scalability

IBM Systems Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 221-240

  King, G M ^a,b,c,d   Dias, D M ^e   Yu, P S ^e  

^a IBM   (United States)

^b S/390 Division   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Pennsylvania State University ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; BUFFER STORAGE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COMPUTER SYSTEM RECOVERY; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; DATA PROCESSING; PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

CLUSTER ARCHITECTURE; COUPLING FACILITY; LOAD BALANCING; PARALLEL SYSPLEX; SCALABILITY;

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE;

EID: 0030680436     PISSN: 00188670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/sj.362.0221     Document Type: Article

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