IBM Rolls Out New Mainframe

[censor48]

UNISYS is a great mainframe.

we use them at work.

i like, and am use to their language, and find them

easier to communicate with then IBM

OLD IBM EMPLOYEE USED TO SAY ABOUT IBM

WHICH MEANS

"I'VE BEEN MOVED"=IBM

[enbiscuits]

@censor48 now at my workplace,people are calling IBM = Institute of Black Magick :)) ,and yes i work with z/series only xD

[censor48]

mainframes will never die.

they just fad away into improvements, and keep coming back.

pc can never do what a mainframe can.

unless the aliens make themselves known from other space

and introduce mankind to new technology, mainframes are

here to stay.

a database workhorse.

[pvx]

@censor48 Yes, but to be frank, mainframes are completely worthless when it comes to graphics/pre-press/media, or any audiovisual content creation & processing.

Sure, they're tops when it comes to unglamorous & utilitarian tasks like databases and all, but PCs are quite adept at applications that mainframes are simply not equipped for. Basically, all flavors of computers have their own niches, with PC being a "catch-all" of sorts due to it being the most versatile, if not the most powerful.

[dargay]

@pvx don't talk about stuff you know nothing about you dumbass. Mainframes are built for 24/7 transaction processing or other number crunching. Your PC cannot do that and was not built for that purpose.

[pvx]

@dargay I konw quite well what I'm talking about, sir. Umm, PCs can do that too, albeit in numbers--it's called grid computing & server farms, which makes mainframes even look more quaint and awkward. Who's the dumbass now?

[jdgator95]

Compare this to the mainframes of the 60s and 70s and what they could do, then think, that's this in 40 years.....crazy

[Dms12444]

@jdgator95 Compared to the massive size of the IBM 1401 or 7030 this thing is tiny. Whats incredible is for its size it is at least several hundred thousand times faster. Makes you wonder where well be in another 40 years.

[CurtHowland]

@jdgator95 I worked on an IBM ES9000 around 1990, just as the transition to RAID, RAM-disks and TCP/IP was starting to happen. It was a huge, multi-million dollar installation, and it very likely had half the MFlops of the PC I'm typing this on even with its 8 cores.

But the -throughput- of the system was astronomical. That's where IBM designs really shine.

IBM contributed greatly to Linux multi-core support, and native S/360. A single image on thousands of CPUs? Yep.

[ttugarygregory]

This box is a screamer compared to the z/9 (and earlier hardware). Add in enough of the ZIIP's and ZAAP's engines and your can really drop processing cost - been there done that.

Does it run Linux? Very well (hence the specialty engines) when running under z/VM you can run thousands of Linux images. Let's not forget about z/OS, z/VSE and z/TPF and then enhancements IBM has made to the operating system to support the new hardware features.

[CurtHowland]

$1M and only 64 CPUs? Hmmm....

Bet it runs Linux. ...and runs it really well.

[code123ns]

@CurtHowland it's a workhorse, not a toy. no linux there.

[TheRusskinruss]

The next gen gaming machine..1 million dollars..MMMMM I'll start saving now..

[bumtownv2]

Is this thing like a giant server?

[IBLOWN]

Will this run COD4?

[ApoX312]

i believe not, because people, who buy a machine like this to play cod4 cant be very intelligent -.-

[IBLOWN]

And i was serious -.-

[ApoX312]

ok let´s be serious. no it will not run cod4, because the system architecture doesn´t support windows

[shades2]

Heard of virtualization?

[shades2]

In a virtual machine, sure. Probably better to run COD4 server on it.

[ApoX312]

oh yes, sure i did, just forgot it^^

[TheIxtlan]

Wow, nice powerful toy. Soon will become obsolete and replace by more powerful machine. I want more power.

[k0namiman]

actually, it's an enterprise class machine, so it'll probably be used until it becomes a bottleneck on the network, and then most likely it will be upgraded rather than replaced. Mostly because this is a MAINFRAME computer. The kind of computer that gets a room all to itself.

[johanntoday]

um, if you had a free z10, you'd still need storage; better ask for a free ds8300 with encrypting drives too

[LUKAvac2]

pls ship mi one for free in my home in Croatia, thx

[stonerj0e]

x86 ? bummer...

[bsenthil1]

starting price of millon dollars. haha.

[drksde05]

awesome can't wait to get one! come on IBM where's my free mainframe?

[bommel88]

yeah free mainframe! And free nuclear reactor in my garden plz ;)

[TurnerzworldCorp]

Once these free MacBook Pro popups disappear, it'll be Free Z10!!!