S/390 cluster technology: Parallel Sysplex

IBM Systems Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 172-200

  Nick, J M ^a,b,c   Moore, B B ^a,d,e,f   Chung, J Y ^a,g,h,i   Bowen, N S ^j  

^a IBM   (United States)

^b OS 390 Syst Arch and Design Area   (United States)

^c MVS System Design and Development   (United States)

^d RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f MARIST COLLEGE   (United States)

^g IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^h Data Intensive Computing Department

ⁱ NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^j Thomas J Watson Research Center ^*

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVAILABILITY; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; PERFORMANCE;

COUPLING FACILITY; DATA SHARING; PARALLEL SYSPLEX; SCALABILITY;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030681989     PISSN: 00188670     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1147/sj.362.0172     Document Type: Article

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