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Simplifying Academic Mainframe Computing Giorgos Tsapepas – IBM Poughkeepsie, NY Dr. Junichi Kanai – RPI Troy, NY. Outline. Background IBM Academic Initiative RPI Design Lab – Capstone Design Experience Project Preparation Semester Work Experience Conclusions.

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  1. Simplifying Academic Mainframe ComputingGiorgos Tsapepas – IBM Poughkeepsie, NYDr. Junichi Kanai – RPI Troy, NY

  2. Outline • Background • IBM Academic Initiative • RPI Design Lab – Capstone Design Experience • Project Preparation • Semester Work Experience • Conclusions

  3. Academic Initiative: Building mainframe skills for the community IBM Academic Initiative, System z: www.ibm.com/university/systemz • Participation – Today, 678 schools registered, >56,000 students attended mainframe education • Courses – 44 Courses (plus more under development) & Mastery Exam, Certifications • zCommunity – 47 Roundtable events with Clients / Schools / ISVs / Business Partners • Resources – Access to Mainframes worldwide for teaching (6 University hubs) • Student Mainframe Contests – 15 countries, 21,971 students, 2,955 schools worldwide • Assist Professors – Education seminars and workshops, Faculty awards • z Skills Help Desk (zskills@us.ibm.com)

  4. RPI Design Lab – Capstone Design Experience • Senior Capstone Design course providing industry experience to seniors • Important design problems for IBM and industry sponsors • Multi disciplinary design teams • Collaboration with sponsor mentors Unique industry & academic collaboration opportunity http://designlab.rpi.edu/

  5. Data Centre on a truck

  6. Project Preparation • Linux on System z application development project • Senior engineering design course with no mainframe infrastructure • Aggressive timeline from inception to beginning of semester • Matrix team environment spanning various organizations • Global team spanning an ocean and many time zones

  7. Semester Work Experience (1) • 6 students on our team with varied experience and backgrounds • Students own the work item as a team • Mix of “easy to find” data and more discrete information • Learning curve for: System z, Linux, and Industry Value • Development using the System z at Marist College

  8. Semester Work Experience (2) • Mentors participate in 1 or more classes every other week in person and through conference calls • Asynchronously work from IBM mentors due to time difference • Executive influence throughout semester to provide direction and insight • Results / Deliverables • System architecture design • Working prototype & source codes • Reports and presentations

  9. Conclusions • Students provided feedback and future direction for second semester • A complete deliverable back to IBM after second semester • Students entering industry now have enterprise class computing experience • Step taken forward in expanding mainframe skilled pipeline to field

  10. Primary Contacts IBM • Giorgos Tsapepas: z Processor Development giorgos@us.ibm.com (Overall Project Direction) • Utz Bacher: zLinux Development utz.bacher@de.ibm.com (Project Technical Direction) • Einar Lueck: zLinux Development ELELUECK@de.ibm.com (Project Technical Direction) • David Watts: z Technology Development wattsd@us.ibm.com (Management Support) • Leana Cropp: z Processor Development leanac@us.ibm.com (Management Support) IBM Academic Initiative • Kathy Pfeiffer: System z Academic Initiative Program manager pfeiff@us.ibm.com • Don Resnik: Client Skills and Academic Initiativeresnik@us.ibm.com RPI • Mark Steiner: Director, O.T. Swanson Multidisciplinary Design Lab, Clinical Professor steinm2@rpi.edu • Junichi Kanai: Associate Director, O.T. Swanson Multidisciplinary Design Lab, Clinical Associate Professor kanaij@rpi.edu • Mark Anderson: Project Engineer anderm8@rpi.edu • Barry Stein: Business Development Managersteinb@rpi.edu

  11. QUESTIONS?

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