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IBM z13s (z13s)

IBM z13s (z13s)

IBM z13s (z13s)

Product catalog summary
Overview
The IBM z13s is a high-performance mainframe designed to tackle real-time business challenges with scalability, enhanced memory, and improved I/O bandwidth. It integrates analytics and transaction processing, ensuring secure data delivery and open-source innovation.
Specifications
The z13s offers up to 20 configurable processor units, improved core performance, and supports up to 4 TB of memory. It features enhanced cryptographic capabilities and supports Linux virtual machines with increased capacity without additional energy consumption.
Operational Efficiency
Specialty engines like IFL, zIIP, and ICF optimize workload execution and reduce costs. The system supports simultaneous multi-threading and SIMD for better analytics and mathematical modeling performance, along with advanced compression and cryptographic coprocessors for improved data handling.
Security and Reliability
With 99.999% reliability, the z13s includes the Crypto Express5S coprocessor for secure-key operations and supports VISA format preserving encryption for payment card security. It also offers improved recovery times for business continuity.
Enterprise Linux Support
The z13s supports up to 20 IFL engines and 40 logical partitions for Linux, enhancing performance and response times. It includes GDPS Virtual Appliance for high availability and IBM zAware for real-time diagnostics, with IBM Spectrum Scale V4.2 for robust file system management.
Conclusion
Optimized for real-time digital business, the IBM z13s handles mobile client growth and large data volumes, providing real-time insights for significant business impact.
Additional Specifications
The IBM z13s (2965) includes various processor core types and configurations, supports up to 32 internal coupling links, multiple InfiniBand ports, FICON Express channels, and Flash Express adapters, with up to 32 HiperSockets for virtual LANs.
Memory and Upgradeability
The z13s supports 64 GB to 4 TB of memory, upgradeable within the z13s family and from previous IBM models, with some upgrades requiring planned outages.
Supported Operating Systems
The system supports z/OS, z/VM, KVM for IBM z Systems, Linux on z Systems, z/VSE, z/TPF, and AIX on POWER7 blades, as well as Linux and Microsoft Windows on IBM System x blades.
Hypervisors and Blades
Supported hypervisors include PowerVM Enterprise Edition and KVM, accommodating up to 112 blades in the IBM BladeCenter with specific configurations.
Additional Information
IBM offers financing options and full lifecycle management of IT products. Further details are available through IBM representatives or on IBM's website.
Disclaimer
The document includes a disclaimer regarding the accuracy and availability of information, noting that IBM products are warranted under specific agreements.
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Catalog excerpts

IBM z13s (z13s)-1

IBM Systems Data Sheet Exceptional scale in a single frame footprint Next generation “network-in-a-box” technology Shared Memory Communications – Direct Access Method More memory, cache enhancements, and improved I/O bandwidth to serve up more data to support exponential mobile transaction volumes Real time insights at the point of impact with integrated analytics and transaction processing Simplified appliance implementation with z Appliance Container Infrastructure Data and services securely delivered, with reduced risk Enabled for open source innovation Businesses need to be flexible, dynamic and agile, while keeping an eye on escalating costs. It often falls on information technology teams to grapple with social and mobile trends and the challenges they create. This requires new insights and ways to integrate these trends into your existing processes and IT infrastructures. Incorporating these new insights and opportunities into your business and IT helps you grow and gain an edge on competition while reducing cost and increasing efficiencies. Exploitation of new information technology infrastructure such as the IBM® z13s™ (z13s) can help you identify and pinpoint areas of duplication or excess that may be repurposed or eliminated. The use of IT to change how you approach your basic core business models can help improve profits while increasing revenues. The new IBM z13s is designed to help tackle your toughest real-time business challenges. It provides impressive scale in terms of memory, I/O and processing power on a single frame that can quickly respond to business fluctuations. The z13s also helps you meet your service level agreements by allowing you to deliver real-time information and insight from data that can give your business the advantage of more timely business decisions. IBM z/OS® supports the new processor with significant enhancements to operating system design, optimized for scalability, cost saving, advanced compression capabilities, reliability, availability and scalability. Delivered with security and availability, the z13s provides enha

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IBM z13s (z13s)-2

IBM Systems Data Sheet Traditional data serving and transactional processing The z13s supports up to 4 TB of memory—8 times more than the zBC12 – so you can make business decisions at a faster pace and improve response times to your clients. Linux application servers, database servers, analytic and cloud workloads running native or under z/VM®, may see performance benefits when taking advantage of large shared, virtualized memory. Large memory can reduce latency and CPU cost, and improve operational efficiency for WebSphere® Application Server and Java applications by allowing larger heaps without...

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IBM z13s (z13s)-3

IBM Systems Data Sheet The use of z Enterprise Data Compression (zEDC) can efficiently keep four times more data at hand that is easy to access3 helping you reduce future DASD purchase by using better utilization techniques so you can make more informed business decisions. An optional rack-mounted hardware management console, previously unavailable in the zBC12, can help to save space in crowded data centers. With simultaneous multi-threading (SMT) to execute two instruction streams (or threads) on a processor core, you get more throughput for Linux on IBM z Systems™ and IBM z Integrated Information...

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IBM z13s (z13s)-4

IBM Systems Data Sheet Enterprise Linux qualities of service The z13s and the Crypto Express5S offer enhanced public key support for constrained environments using hardware assisted Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC). ECC provides algorithms with much shorter key lengths than RSA keys for similar cryptographic strength. This makes ECC cryptography ideal for mobile and smartcards where memory constraints may be a consideration. VISA format preserving encryption (VFPE) for payment card account numbers helps provide additional security by enabling legacy databases and applications to contain encrypted...

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IBM z13s (z13s)-5

IBM Systems Data Sheet z13s is the mainframe optimized for real-time business ­ inconsistencies or anomalies. With rapid identification of message anomalies, organizations can accelerate their response to resolve problems, focus their efforts more precisely, address IT problems quickly, minimize availability lapses and intervene in IT problems before they become more severe. Previously available only for z/OS, with z13s, it is now supported on Linux on z Systems too. Built on z Systems core values and strengths, the z13s delivers innovations and technologies to enable real-time digital business....

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IBM z13s (z13s)-6

IBM Systems Data Sheet IBM z13s (2965) at a glance Processor Core Types: ­ N10 min/max Coupling Links Internal Coupling Link maximum Flash Express 8 (4 pairs – 8 PCIe adapters); offered in pairs Up to 32 high-speed “virtual” Local Area Networks Internal Shared Memory (ISM) Up to 32 high-speed network segments Minimum order 2 features; Maximum order 16 features Compression Acceleration zEDC Express Minimum order 1 feature; Maximum order 8 features RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) 10 GbE Ro

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IBM z13s (z13s)-8

For more information To learn more about the z13s, please contact your IBM representative or IBM Business Partner, or visit the following website: ibm.com/systems/z13s Additionally, IBM Global Financing provides numerous payment options to help you acquire the technology you need to grow your business. We provide full lifecycle management of IT products and services, from acquisition to disposition. For more information, visit: ibm.com/financing 1 SMC-D will initially be supported by z/OS only 2 Results based on internal controlled measurements using IBM Encryption Facility for files containing...

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