IBM 3090

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IBM 3090
ManufacturerInternational Business Machines Corporation (IBM)
Product familyModels 120E, 150, 150E, 180, 180E, 200, 200E, 300, 300E, 400, 400E, 600E, 600J, 600S
PredecessorIBM 308X
SuccessorIBM ES/9000
WebsiteOfficial website IBM Archives
History of IBM mainframes, 1952–present
Market name
Architecture

The IBM 3090 family is a family of mainframe computers that was a high-end successor to the IBM System/370 series, and thus indirectly the successor to the IBM System/360 launched 25 years earlier.[1][2]

Announced on 12 February 1985, the press releases did not explicitly mention that the two models, Model 200 and Model 400, were backwardly compatible with the 370; instead, they were simply positioned as replacements for the IBM 3033. The IBM 3090/200 version was rated at 18 MIPS and 31,000 UNIX Dhrystones.[3] This was true of the entire line, which expanded with the release of the Model 120E,[4] 150, 150E, 180, 180E, 200, 200E, 300, 300E, 400, 400E, 600E, 600J, and 600S[5] 3090 were described as using "ideas from the ... IBM 3033, extending them ... It also took ... from the ... IBM 308X."[6]

The 400 and 600 were respectively two 200s or 300s coupled together as one system and could run in either single-system image mode or partitioned into two systems.[5]

Models and features

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Model Announced N-way/processor(s)
200 February 12, 1985[7] 2 central processors
400 February 12, 1985[7] 4-way (two 200s)
120E May 19, 1987[8] Uniprocessor
150 February 11, 1986[9] Uniprocessor
150E January 26, 1987[10] Uniprocessor
180 February 11, 1986[9] Uniprocessor
180E January 26, 1987[10] Uniprocessor
200E January 26, 1987[11] 2 central processors
280E January 26, 1987[12] 2 central processors
300 1987 3-way (triadic)
300E January 26, 1987[13] 3-way (triadic)
400E January 26, 1987[11] 4-way (two 200Es)
600E 1987 6-way (two 300s)
280E February 15, 1988 2-way (dyadic)
500E February 15, 1988 5-way (200E+300E)
600S 1988 6-way (two 300s)
600J 1989[14] 6-way (two 300s)

Cooling

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By the late 1970s and early 1980s, patented technology allowed Amdahl mainframes of this era to be completely air-cooled, unlike IBM systems that required chilled water and its supporting infrastructure.[15] The eight largest of the 18 models of the ES/9000 systems introduced in 1990 were water-cooled; the other ten were air-cooled.[16]

Enterprise Systems Architecture/370

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Main article: IBM Enterprise Systems Architecture § ESA/370 architecture

On February 15, 1988, IBM announced[17] Enterprise Systems Architecture/370 for 3090 enhanced ("E") models and for 4381 model groups 91E and 92E. In additional to the primary and secondary addressing modes that System/370 Extended Architecture (S/370-XA) supports, ESA has an AR mode in which each use of general register 1-15 as a base register uses an associated access register to select an address space. In addition to the normal address spaces that S/370-XA supports, ESA also allows data spaces, which contain no executable code.

Processor Resource/Systems Manager (PR/SM)

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Main article: PR/SM

On February 15, 1988, IBM announced[18] Processor Resource/Systems Manager (PR/SM) for 3090 enhanced ("E") models This feature allows the operator to define and assign resource to a virtual machine known as a logical partition (LPAR). Initially there was a 4-LPAR limit for uniprocessors and an 8-LPAR limit for multiprocessors, but newer machines support more.

Remote service capabilities

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A modem for "remote service capabilities" was standard; IBM recommended their IBM 3864 model 2.[19][20][21]

Vector facility

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On October 1, 1985, IBM announced[22] an optional vector facility[23] for the IBM 3090; such a facility had not been previously available in the System/370 architecture, thus bringing integrated supercomputer capabilities to the mainframe line. IBM entered into partnerships with several universities to promote the use of the 3090 in scientific applications, and efforts were made to convert code traditionally run on Cray computers.[24] Along with the vector unit, IBM introduced their Engineering and Scientific Subroutines Library and a facility to run programs written for the discontinued 3838 array processor.[25]

Photos

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UK's A3090 (highway) leads to an access road for IBM's Hursley laboratory.

See also

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Notes

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References

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Further reading

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  • Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value). — Chapter 10 (pp. 255–268) describes the 3090.
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