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IBM wants to provide data scientists with the same types of machine learning capabilities in a mainframe environment that they are used to finding in the cloud.
If for some bizarre reason you've been locked in a mainframe and haven't noticed, the cloud has become blindingly hypnotic, lulling businesses by the butt load into moving off their old-school Microsoft Office suites and server sprawling CRM installs.
By offering an elastic, cloud-like pricing model, it is hoping to land more customers who might have been scared away previously by the up-front cost of investing in a mainframe.
James Benson, founder and chairman of SpaceDev, a $3.4 million (2002 sales) maker of "affordable" microsatellites, rockets and other space paraphernalia, says he is "trying to bring the microcomputer way of thinking to a space industry that is bogged down in a mainframe, bigger-is-better way of thinking".
Considering kids these days want to get famous on YouTube more than they want to increase the petaflops in a mainframe, I'd be surprised if our next official supercomputer was a store-bought Dell with a nice graphics card and speed stripes on the side.
As Donna Seymour, OPM's chief information officer, told Congress in April, "Most of the government's data is in a mainframe.
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In many cases, such legacy code is written in a mainframe-specific assembly language and needs to be translated to a high-level language in order to be run on different architectures.
With our rapid adoption of cloud and mobile technologies, we are returning to the "dumb terminal" paradigm in which a mainframe computer (this time, a data center) does much of the processing and storing of data that we used to do on our now increasingly thin (literally and metaphorically) clients.
It was one of the first instances of a "wired" courtroom: lawyers were provided computers linked to a mainframe in Texas to share documents.
The tiny audience tuning into season one took a quick, unimpressed look at the way the show was fixated on Lee Pace's moody, mercurial salesman and decided they had zero interest in Mad Men with a mainframe.
(And yes, the first computer bug was literally a moth that got caught in the relays of a mainframe computer, although the term actually dates back to the late 1800s).
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