24 Feb
2012
24 Feb
'12
12:16 a.m.
On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 08:08:39PM -0800, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 19 Feb 2012 at 19:21, Fred Cisin wrote:
Well, these days people are building 19" racks for high density datacenters
with builtin water cooling at the rack level. And when you look at the
power density of e.g. a fully loaded blade system has it makes a lot of
sense.
Wouldn't call those setups mainframes, though ;-)
Kind regards,
Alex.
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looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison
On Mon, 20 Feb 2012, Terry Stewart wrote:
Supreme Court justices trying to define pornography.
You can give some characteristics that might qualify a given hunk of
iron as having mainframe status, but there will always be an
exception.
If it requires special cooling (e.g. chilled water, liquid nitrogen),
it's probably a mainframe. So can I gather that there is no clear definition
That is CORRECT.
There has never been a definitive definition, but MANY by marketing
people who do NOT understand.