[HN Gopher] IBM Z17 Time Synchronization Resiliency Enhancements
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       IBM Z17 Time Synchronization Resiliency Enhancements
        
       Author : rbanffy
       Score  : 9 points
       Date   : 2025-12-08 19:07 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | PaulHoule wrote:
       | There's a principle in distributed systems that you can't really
       | count on clocks to be synchronized in a very large system but the
       | thing about Parallel Sysplex is that it is not particularly
       | scalable, it maxes out at 32 nodes but those nodes are pretty big
       | -- the system overall is big enough for most of what the Fortune
       | 500 does but tiny compared to Google, Facebook or a handful of
       | really big systems. Sysplex revolves around distributed data
       | structures similar to what Hazelcast provided in the beginning.
        
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