Open Solaris on System Z demo Part V

David Boyes of Sine Nomine demonstrates an IBM Mainframe running Sun Microsystems Open Solaris operating system, part five. Conclusion.

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Science & Technology

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• ibm
• mainframe
• solaris
• gartner
• datacenter

[hiddendarkshadows]

Mr Cameraman show the computer screen more than the man's face.

[einyo]

That's because mainframes are not meant for scientific calculations. They're meant for high volume transaction processing and mass virtualization with absolute maximum reliability and security in mind.

Just because it isn't a number cruncher doesn't lessen the importance of the system for real-world workloads...your comment is misleading and doesn't have any relevance.

Mainframes indeed kick ass.

[utubeworms]

Actually, the cloud computing paradigm is somewhat mimicking the mainframe architecture. So, what's old is new again. Happens all the time in computing.

[kjdavey]

Linux under Z/Series is quite popular right now. IBM recently consolidated 196 internal data centers down 9 by consolidating on Linux running under Z/os on the mainframe.

[Nwo1001]

how popular is solaris and linux on zseries?? does it have any scope??

[mike4ty4]

How did I make it give this impression?

[einyo]

The root of this was chrirs' comment that happened to remark that the system kicked ass for a particular purpose (ex, VM guests...precisely what you're saying), but you took his comment and spun it so that Joe ITworker might get the impression that distributed systems are superior. You even broke your response up into two pieces referencing supercomputers to do it! It was horribly misleading.

Eh, par since the 90s.This is a great video because it shows how flexible the platform is becoming!

[mike4ty4]

"Just because it isn't a number cruncher doesn't lessen the importance of the system for real-world workloads...your comment is misleading and doesn't have any relevance."

The statement is not wrong. It _does_ depend on what you want to do. I did not say a mainframe is useless, I said it depends on what you want to do and you yourself admitted this. It's _great_ for the tasks you mention, but it is not great for every task.

[artem1002]

windows vista ftw, btw if this has nothing to do with what i think it has to do, i dont care cuz i didnt watch the whole video, about first 10sec and then fell asleep :p

[mike4ty4]

Unless perhaps they have a whole bunch of these machines, however from what I've read their supercomputers are NOT mainframes. Mainframes "kick ass" for some tasks, for others, they stink.