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SPD Engine System Requirements

The following general guidelines enable a minimum computer system to support the SPD Engine. Configuring a system to provide at least one separate I/O path to the disks for each CPU is crucial to getting the best performance.

Windows, UNIX, and Open VMS Alpha Platforms

• an SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) computer with at least two CPUs; four are preferred
• at least one I/O channel per two CPUs
• enough disk drives to have at least one mount point per CPU isolated on its own disk; two mount points per CPU are better.

z/OS Platform

• UNIX file system (zFS).
• a single, multivolume zFS filesystem under storage management subsystem (SMS) control, in order to bypass the SMS class selection routines (ACS) and require only one mount point.

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