[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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