z/Architecture
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z/Architecture is IBM's 64-bit mainframe instruction set architecture designed for high-reliability, high-throughput enterprise computing on System z servers.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| IBM Z architecture | 3 |
| z/Architecture canonical | 3 |
| IBM System z architecture | 1 |
| IBM Z processors | 1 |
| IBM z/Architecture | 1 |
Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
IBM architecture
ⓘ
instruction set architecture ⓘ mainframe architecture ⓘ |
| bitWidth | 64-bit ⓘ |
| compatibleWith |
ESA/390 architecture (for many instructions and facilities)
ⓘ
IBM System/360 ⓘ
surface form:
System/360 architecture (at the binary interface level for many instructions)
IBM System/370 ⓘ
surface form:
System/370 architecture (at the binary interface level for many instructions)
|
| designedFor |
IBM System z
ⓘ
IBM System z ⓘ
surface form:
IBM Z
enterprise computing ⓘ mainframe computers ⓘ |
| developer | IBM ⓘ |
| feature |
64-bit general-purpose registers
ⓘ
64-bit instruction addressing ⓘ 64-bit virtual addressing ⓘ backward compatibility ⓘ hardware cryptography support ⓘ high reliability ⓘ high throughput ⓘ virtualization support ⓘ |
| firstImplementedIn |
IBM System z
ⓘ
surface form:
IBM z900
|
| hasRegisterType |
access registers
ⓘ
control registers ⓘ floating-point registers ⓘ general-purpose registers ⓘ vector registers ⓘ |
| introducedBy |
IBM System z
ⓘ
surface form:
IBM zSeries mainframes
|
| predecessor | ESA/390 ⓘ |
| supports |
Linux on S/390
ⓘ
surface form:
Linux on IBM Z
z/OS ⓘ z/VM ⓘ z/VSE ⓘ |
| supportsFeature |
ECC memory protection
ⓘ
PR/SM hypervisor ⓘ RAS features (reliability, availability, serviceability) ⓘ Simultaneous multithreading (SMT) on some implementations ⓘ channel I/O subsystem ⓘ hardware transactional memory (on later generations) ⓘ logical partitioning (LPAR) ⓘ |
| supportsMode |
24-bit addressing mode
ⓘ
31-bit addressing mode ⓘ 64-bit mode ⓘ |
| supportsWorkload |
batch processing
ⓘ
large-scale database workloads ⓘ mission-critical applications ⓘ online transaction processing (OLTP) ⓘ |
| usedIn |
financial services data centers
ⓘ
government data centers ⓘ large enterprise transaction processing ⓘ |
Referenced by (9)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
IBM System z architecture
this entity surface form:
IBM Z architecture
this entity surface form:
IBM Z architecture
this entity surface form:
IBM Z architecture