efinnel...@aol.com (Ed Finnell) writes: > _June 2011 | TOP500 Supercomputing Sites_ > (http://www.top500.org/lists/2011/06) > > That's a whollottaflops...
and a whole lot of sparcs ... regardless of what sun/oracle is doing. recent comment (in linkedin) thread that possibly a blade mega-datacenter may have more MIPs than the aggregate of all currently installed mainframes: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011i.html#9 At least two decades back, some gurus predicted that mainframes would disappear in future and it still has not happened note that original 64bit sparc was being done at HAL (initials from former head of ibm 801/risc workstation division and head of sun manufacturing, there was glitch at last minute with sun objecting to participation by former sun employee) ... heavily funded by fujitsu ... eventually absorbed into fujitsu. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_Computer_Systems misc. past posts mentioning 801, risc, romp, rios, power, power/pc, etc http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801 -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
