21 Feb
2012
21 Feb
'12
12:09 a.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
If you're referencing "Reliability,
Availability and Serviceability",
I think that's not specific enough. ILLIAC IV was certainly a
mainframe and had none of those.
ILLIAC IV is perhaps better classed as a supercomputer. Though that
probably starts another argument about how to distinguish mainframes
from supercomputers.
There were certainly a lot of supercomputers that didn't have RAS as
defined above.