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- From: C4322PH@UMVMA.BITNET (Scott Stager)
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
- Subject: Re: Dual CPUs
- Message-ID: <IBM-MAIN%92101514045659@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
- Date: 15 Oct 92 18:55:38 GMT
- Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion list <IBM-MAIN@RICEVM1.BITNET>
- Organization: UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI
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- Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU
- In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 15 Oct 1992 13:14:13 EST from <WXL1@DCC>
-
- On Thu, 15 Oct 1992 13:14:13 EST Bill Leimbach said:
- >Dundalk Community College is in the planning stages of upgrading
- >our 4381 system. Since our current system does not have a great deal
- >of residual value, we were thinking of continuing to use our current
- >CPU with our new box. Anyone out there in netland have experience in
- >tightly-coupling CPUs and sharing devices? Your insights and advice
- >would be appreciated!
- >------------------------------------------------------------------------
- We were a multi-cpu shared DASD configuration for over 15 years until
- just recently.
-
- Shared DASD is a real performance problem if you are not careful.
- Minimize the amount of same volume sharing as much as possible.
- The problem becomes especially acute when one of the cpus is
- significantly faster than the other. It can hog a volume.
- Hardware volume reserves can be a real headache.
-
- Disregarding performance problems, it worked fine.
-
- NOTE: you will need some kind of global integrity facility to keep
- two systems from stepping on each other in the same dataset. IBM
- has GRS (Global Resource Serialization - maybe MVS only?). We used
- Legent's Multi Image Manager (MIM) in our shop. I think there might
- be a VM flavor of that.
-
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