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re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#18 Another "migration" from the mainframe http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#19 Another "migration" from the mainframe http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#22 Another "migration" from the mainframe lots of old posts mentioning working on our ha/cmp product ... and/or some loosely-coupled (dating back to at least when my wife had been con'ed into going to POK to be in charge of loosely-coupled architecture) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp when she was in POK, in charge of loosely-coupled architecture, she developed peer-coupled shared data architecture, which didn't see a lot of uptake (except for ims-hotstandby) until parallel sysplex http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#shareddata and a little followup of financial industry using blades/grids at the high-end ... including enabling them to do "real-time" trading algorithms ... something that they haven't been able to do before Lots of Blade Server articles http://www.eweek.com/category2/0,1874,1658862,00.asp IBM Grid Computing Solutions - financial industry http://www-03.ibm.com/grid/solutions/by_industry/financial.shtml from above: Optimized Analytic Infrastructure Drive higher margins and revenue growth by: * Turning creative quantitative insight into tested, supported, tradable investment products * Achieving near real-time and intraday decision making for on demand valuations and complex risk reporting in minutes * Reducing costs and enhancing standardization of existing analytic infrastructures ... snip ... Grid Computing for Financial Services 2007 http://www.iqpc.com/cgi-bin/templates/genevent.html?topic=233&event=12603&; from above: "70% of firms now deploy enterprise grids in key business areas" to maximise CPU power and business capability – but are you really driving its development forward in your IT strategy? ... snip ... Grid computing: Accelerating the search for revenue and profit for financial markets http://www-03.ibm.com/industries/financialservices/doc/content/landing/973028103.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
