Re: mainframes; I've always said that the move to "cloud computing" isn't really a glorious new era in data processing but rather a return to the "smart terminals plus mainframe" model.
-- Steve never liked that model, vastly prefering the greater speed and flexibility of local processing.
It's definitely more flexible - but it's not necessarily faster.
Being able to run a massive amount of processing on a huge amount of data, all on the same machine, is a big speed boost over retrieving the data from the database to a processing machine, and feeding the results back again.
The company I work for has terabytes of data being processed back and forth, a mainframe is pretty much our only option for processing it all in one night.
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andrewducker) wrote2010-08-03 12:00 pm
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-- Steve never liked that model, vastly prefering the greater speed and flexibility of local processing.
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Being able to run a massive amount of processing on a huge amount of data, all on the same machine, is a big speed boost over retrieving the data from the database to a processing machine, and feeding the results back again.
The company I work for has terabytes of data being processed back and forth, a mainframe is pretty much our only option for processing it all in one night.