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Our mainframe is expensive but it isn't slow. It's not exactly sitting on the same hardware from the 70's.
by SmellTheGlove 10y ago
Our mainframe is expensive but it isn't slow. It's not exactly sitting on the same hardware from the 70's.
- Arizhel 10y agoThe amount of performance (particularly CPU) you get per dollar is very low. Mainframes are all about lots of I/O with ridiculously high reliability and availability, but for an absurd amount of money.
- SmellTheGlove 10y agoRight, but that's our use case and it also happens to run our legacy applications! IBM's support is also very good. We're not running our modeling engines and that stuff on it. We have HPC for that.