The zEC12 microprocessor (zEnterprise EC12 or just z12) is a chip made by IBM for their zEnterprise EC12 and zEnterprise BC12 mainframe computers, announced on August 28, 2012. It is manufactured at the East Fishkill, New York fabrication plant (previously owned by IBM but production will continue for ten years by new owner GlobalFoundries ).

The zBC12 can connect to the zBX expansion system. IBM is offering a special version of the zBC12 called the Enterprise Linux Server, [26] running only Linux hosts on top of its z/VM hypervisor, targeting large migrations from x86-based Linux installations.

IBM Announcements! For nearly 50 years, IBM has been leading the IT industry with its mainframe servers. Today, IBM announced its 12th generation mainframe in its [ System z product family ], the IBM zEnterprise EC12, or zEC12 for short.

Dec 6, 2013 · This system consists of the IBM zEnterprise EC12 (zEC12), an updated IBM zEnterprise Unified Resource Manager, and the IBM zEnterprise BladeCenter® Extension (zBX) Model 003. The zEC12 is designed with improved scalability, performance, security, resiliency, availability, and virtualization.

IBM Z mainframes run on z/OS®, Linux®, z/TPF, and z/VM®, delivering AI integration, security, and resiliency. Sustainability. Reduce energy consumption by consolidating selected x86 workloads onto a single physical IBM Z system.

IBM publications that you will find helpful and that you should use along with this publication are in the following list. You can access these books from Resource Link® at http://www.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink, and click Library from the navigation bar on the left. Then select the server product. v Systems Safety Notices, G229-9054

This edition applies to the IBM zEnterprise EC12, IBM zEnterprise BC12 and the IBM zEnterprise BladeCenter Extension Model 003. Note: Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in “Notices” on

With the launch of IBM’s z12 mainframe engine, one can expect higher clock speed and making it possible to do anything and everything, to achieve and boost the single-thread performance. Companies are charging thousands of dollars per core of an engine.

Sep 5, 2012 · Each z12 core has 64KB of L1 instruction cache and 96KB of L1 data cache. IBM did a few funky things with the cache inside the z12 engine to keep those 5.5GHz threads fed. First, it broke the L2 cache into instruction and data caches, mirroring what most chip etchers do …

Aug 28, 2012 · New, cutting-edge System z® capabilities for security and analytics dramatically boost cloud performance with help from IBM Research innovations. zEC12 offers 25% more performance per core,...