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Browser-Ice
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Hi, I see a lot of references to mainframes but when I look at the threads, there does not seam to be any evidences that mainframes are used to run WGC's research calculations.
Are they ? I was involved in something along that line a few years back. I am checking if there was any progress or not. |
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Bryn Mawr
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Hi, I see a lot of references to mainframes but when I look at the threads, there does not seam to be any evidences that mainframes are used to run WGC's research calculations. Are they ? I was involved in something along that line a few years back. I am checking if there was any progress or not. Where are you seeing references to mainframes? As far as I know WCG is totally server based. |
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PMH_UK
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I don't think mainframes were used at WCG even when IBM ran it.
----------------------------------------One user who had access to a large IBM mainframe ran BOINC using a x86 emulator. Some projects where the source is available could be run natively on mainframes or other platforms. Paul.
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One user who had access to a large IBM mainframe ran BOINC using a x86 emulator. Yes, I remember him we were all envious of his crunching abiliity, and he certainly soon raced to the top of the charts with the huge resuorces he had available - hoovering up vast quantities of WU's.The thing about mainframes, is that they're not cheep to run/maintain (similar to large racks of high-end servers) - and usually are used in large institutions who've got a purpose to run those said machines (such as banks etc.). I know at the bank I work at, we've got a few mainframes, spread over a number of data centres, and whilst the "primary"/"production" site is bieng used to 'run the bank', the "backup"/"secondary" mainframes are used for the development/test systems - thus, they're also heavily used, despite them "not" being used to 'run the bank" on a day to day basis. ![]() |
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Mike.Gibson
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There was one that ran in between tasks as a fill-in.
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Browser-Ice
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So can I conclude that currently there are no mainframes at all used for any WCG projects?
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gb009761
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So can I conclude that currently there are no mainframes at all used for any WCG projects? I would say so - that is, unless you've got a spare IBM Z16 kicking around ![]() ![]() |
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BobbyB
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I have an old 1401 in the basement to heat the house in winter.
![]() But seriously, I wonder if there was ever a study done to evaluate how many mainframes, Z16 or other, it would take to achieve the computing power of the WCG community. |
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