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Well, they could just build supercomputers from off-the-shelf parts and Linux. Like everyone else seems to be doing these days. Mainframes have magnificent rel
by Craiggybear 15y ago
Well, they could just build supercomputers from off-the-shelf parts and Linux. Like everyone else seems to be doing these days.
Mainframes have magnificent reliability, uptime and throughput, though, and I'm not sure how a commodity stack compares to that. Modern, cheap hardware is pretty reliable, though. The LHC uses a lot of it in huge Linux farms with MySQL (amongst other things) for data storage.
- kakali 15y agoThey do, hence Pleiades, the 7th fastest supercomputer. http://www.nas.nasa.gov/hecc/resources/pleiades.html http://www.nas.nasa.gov/hecc/resources/pleiades.html
- Craiggybear 15y agoYes, I knew about that. It is cheaper and more productive (almost certainly for their needs) to just keep doing this. $700,000 a year that would otherwise be spent on mainframe upkeep buys a lot of hardware.