By introducing a mainframe with the easier-to-use Linux operating system, IBM is "taking the mainframe out of the data center and making it available to customers that don't have mainframe skills," he said.
By using a mainframe, Porto Alegre created a near-real time a digital map of the city to better schedule maintenance work, reduce road closures, which is projected to achieve a 50percentt reduction in response times, and a 30percentt reduction in backlogs.
Bank SinoPac, a Taiwanese lender, will cut its IT infrastructure costs by almost half by moving from a mainframe computer to a private cloud.
"We do most of the work by transferring processing jobs to a mainframe," said Dr. Dan Russell, senior manager of human-computer interactions for I.B.M. Almaden.
July 9 , 1982The movie Tron, in which the Jeff Bridges character is digitized by an experimental laser into a mainframe where programs are living entities appearing in the likeness of the humans who created them, is released.
A mainframe computer provided by the National Science Foundation was made available to sociologists, linguists, historians and economists, among others, helping the institute to build one of the country's foremost social science archives.
The museum is also the repository for unique machines like the Johnniac and the WISC, or Wisconsin Integrally Synchronized Computer, a mainframe computer built by Gene Amdahl for his doctoral dissertation at the University of Wisconsin in 1953.
Sales were just below analysts' estimates, weighed down by a slowdown in mainframe sales, compared with the previous year when new models were introduced.
