The mainframe workload continues to increase and will continue to increase for decades.
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Sunday, August 21, 2022, 5:29 PM, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: You would offload a lot of the (expensive) Z cycles to the GPU, right? Still, I agree, hard for me to see this flying. It pains me to say this, but we just don't seem to hear people saying "I would love to put business process 'X' on the mainframe." Don't flame me -- I love the Z and the mainframe has been very, very good to me -- but what we hear mostly it seems is "I would love to get this business process OFF the mainframe." Although, isn't @Dave's idea more or less what IBM has done with AI and the z16? Coupled specialized processors to a Z? Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2022 1:37 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Once upon a time...... Dave Jones wrote about attaching GPU cards to a Z to make it a super-number cruncher. What's the problem you're trying to solve? Cheap Intel MIPS being too inexpensive? Seriously, I've never heard anyone say "I'd put this numeric-intensive application on zSystems but they're just too slow". No, they say "Intel cycles are cheap: let's use an array with GPU cards attached". There might be a use case or two, but I'd be (pleasantly!) astonished to find more than a handful. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
