2010-08-25

The mainframe strikes back

I attended an interesting IBM presentation today on the topic of zIIPs, zAAPs and IFLs.

These specialty z processors are designed to support "new" workloads that were formerly the domain of Java, Linux, and *ix.  After spending the past two decades losing workloads to the other platforms, the mainframe is finally* winning some of it back.


*Actually these processors have been around for the past decade or so, so it's not that recent a development.

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