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Support s390x

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#29,637 opened on Oct 14, 2018

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Hello, I'm referring to Issue #21474. I've been working in programming for a few years at one of the largest German insurance companies (R+V Versicherung) and I'm very interested in Julia. Since our company strategically relies on the mainframe alongside other platforms, I asked our management if we could provide community access to our s390x machines. The management is also very interested that we gain experience with Julia because there are many mathematical operations in the company that need to be processed. So I talked to our z/OS and zLinux groups and we have some questions for you:

  • is there still any interest in a port for the s390x?
  • do you need access to zLinux or zOS?
  • what parameters do you need for a z guest roughly (mem, disk, IO bandwidth, #cpu, ...)?

We would be happy to support the community.

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Investigate the current state of s390x support in Julia's build system and how other architectures like ARM64 were added. Look at existing patches or discussions in related issues.
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