As a mainframer, love to see the s390x support and zdnn (C library with all the instructions for our on chip accelerators) support. I like that IBM and Broadcom et al. went with something open source and local that could be tested on our Linux machines so that it wouldn't be a big pain to implement on z/OS or zLinux so to speak.
I've had the opportunity to do some fun playing around with zdnn on a z17. I've not tried the Spyre cards, but the on chip accelerator for Telum II is surprisingly capable with smaller models. I initially thought you would basically NEED the Spyre cards to get anything significant running but I was wrong.
I've had the opportunity to do some fun playing around with zdnn on a z17. I've not tried the Spyre cards, but the on chip accelerator for Telum II is surprisingly capable with smaller models. I initially thought you would basically NEED the Spyre cards to get anything significant running but I was wrong.