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.

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Label Occurrences
IBM Z architecture 3
z/Architecture canonical 3
IBM System 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

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

IBM System z architecture z/Architecture
z/OS runsOn z/Architecture
this entity surface form: IBM Z processors
IBM System/390 formsBasisFor z/Architecture
this entity surface form: IBM System z architecture
z/VM supportsArchitecture z/Architecture
this entity surface form: IBM Z architecture
z/VM supportsArchitecture z/Architecture
z/VSE architecture z/Architecture
this entity surface form: IBM Z architecture
z/VSE architecture z/Architecture
Assembler usedOn z/Architecture
this entity surface form: IBM z/Architecture
Red Hat CoreOS supports z/Architecture
this entity surface form: IBM Z architecture