Date:         Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:46:18 -0600
Reply-To:     Alan Churchill <SASL001@SAVIAN.NET>
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From:         Alan Churchill <SASL001@SAVIAN.NET>
Subject:      Re: Death of the Mainframe? (was PC SAS vs. Mainframe SAS)
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Ron,

I had a very senior IBM consultant tell me years ago that AIX was out and
Linux was in at IBM. Obviously, the money mattered more so the line has
changed.

Massively parallel computing (pick the O/S, I really don't care) served from
farms of computers is the future of what we used to term a MF. That's my
basic point. If AIX is the delivery mechanism, that's cool. I just don't
think 1 big box is the future.

Alan

Alan Churchill
Savian "Bridging SAS and Microsoft Technologies"
www.savian.net



-----Original Message-----
From: SAS(r) Discussion [mailto:SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Fehd,
Ronald J. (CDC/CCHIS/NCPHI)
Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 2:38 PM
To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: Death of the Mainframe? (was PC SAS vs. Mainframe SAS)

> From: Alan Churchill
> http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-6119618.html

> Teraflop PCs anyone?  80 cores by 2008?

> Can I port MVS(z/OS) to it?

I'm just out of a meeting with IBM reps
who are thinking that we may want to examine AIX:
   Advanced
   IBM
UniX

I'll leave it to you to figure out whether the redundancy or oxymoron is
Advanced IBM or IBM UniX!  <g>

http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/aix/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIX_operating_system

note that they are serious
about having you consider this a MVS / z/OS alternative:
packages to implement ChargeBack costs
based on storage, cpu usage, and i/o usage.

http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/aix/whitepapers/aix_accounting.pdf

Ron Fehd  the rusty z/OS maven  CDC Atlanta GA USA RJF2 at cdc dot gov