To my understanding, supercomputers are not mainframes, and are generally
used for different purposes. I quickly found a blog entry that seems to
confirm my general understanding, here is a quote:
supercomputers generally focus on problems which are limited by calculation
> speed while mainframes focus on problems which are limited by input/output
> and reliability ("throughput computing") and on solving multiple business
> problems concurrently (mixed workload).
The URL for the above is
http://itsallaboutbrian.blogspot.com/2008/03/mainframes-vs-supercomputers.html
I won't try to argue that supercomputers couldn't serve as a replacement for
mainframes.
--JE
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Rev. Stewart Marshall <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Super computers do not use COBOL.
>
> When I worked at Cray they used a version of IBM400 or similar it was based
> on UNIX.
>
> Of course they used Sun stations throughout.
>
> Stewart
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