New System z15 Mainframe Takes The Heat Off Power Systems

September 16, 2019 Timothy Prickett Morgan

I don’t know if many of you work this way, but sometimes I have to say things out loud and follow that train of thought before I decide it is a good, bad, or neutral idea – or any of the different gradations in there and beyond these from absolutely wonderful on one end to impossible or worse yet impossible on the other end. It is a kind of branch prediction, and like modern processors for the past two decades, it is subject to Meltdown speculative execution vulnerabilities.

(That right there was a nerd joke. I think. Maybe. . …