Run-control and service element code simulation for the S/390 microprocessor

In recent years the importance of time to market for new computer systems has grown. Very little time can be spent in hardware bring-up and the system integration phase when new hardware and new code (several megabytes) come together for the first time on the test floor. This paper describes some of the measures that were taken to achieve this goal on the S/390® Parallel Enterprise Server Generation 4.