Hacker News with Generative AI: Mainframes

Tales from Mainframe Modernization (oppi.li)
At my last workplace, I wrote transpilers (or just compilers if you prefer) from mainframe languages (COBOL, JCL, BASIC etc.) to Java (in Rust!).

Programming, Software Engineering, Mainframes, Legacy Systems, Rust

65 points by todsacerdoti 37 days ago | 31 comments

Telum II at Hot Chips 2024: Mainframe with a Unique Caching Strategy (chipsandcheese.com)
Mainframes still play a vital role in today, providing extremely high uptime and low latency for financial transactions.

Mainframes, Hardware, Caching, Semiconductors, Hot Chips

137 points by rbanffy 39 days ago | 66 comments

Teens maintained a mainframe and it went about as well as you'd imagine (theregister.com)
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Serge," who, when he was just 16 years old, scored an amazing job: Working the night shift at a mainframe-for-hire company, alongside one of his friends.

Technology, Mainframes, Teenagers, Work, Retro Computing

7 points by Bender 52 days ago | 0 comments

The New IBM Z17 Telum II Processor Module Cut Open Down to Silicon (servethehome.com)
A few weeks ago, we showed the new IBM z17 Mainframe, which brings AI with Telum II and Spyre. I attended the launch, but the next day, I was able to tour IBM’s Fishkill facility, where they do engineering, including failure analysis. As part of that, we got some unique looks at hardware that few get to see.

Hardware, IBM, Mainframes, AI, Engineering

8 points by rbanffy 62 days ago | 0 comments

IBM Announces the Z17 Mainframe Powered by Telum II Processors (phoronix.com)
Following IBM engineers doing a lot of open-source compiler work around a new "arch15" that we suspected to be IBM z17 with Telum II processors, this morning IBM officially announced their next-generation mainframe hardware.

IBM, Mainframes, Hardware, Processors

71 points by rbanffy 80 days ago | 54 comments

The Mainframe Vocabulary Problem, and Why It Matters (mainframesociety.com)

Mainframes, Software, Technology, Computer Science, Programming

30 points by rbanffy 85 days ago | 16 comments

Blinkenlights (wikipedia.org)
In computer jargon, blinkenlights are diagnostic lights on front panels of old mainframe computers.

Computer History, Mainframes, Hardware

40 points by prismatic 162 days ago | 20 comments

The Eternal Mainframe (2013) (winestockwebdesign.com)
A funny thing happened on the way to the future. The mainframe outlasted its replacements.

Technology, History, Mainframes

78 points by w3ll_w3ll_w3ll 234 days ago | 12 comments

IBM's mainframe bubble bursts and growth stalls (theregister.com)
In its last few quarterly results announcements, IBM has trumpeted unexpectedly strong growth in its mainframe business, and that's helped the technology titan to just-about deliver promised mid-single-digit revenue growth in constant currency. But in its Q3 results announcement on Wednesday, Big Blue revealed mainframe revenue fell 19 percent – and that overall growth came in at just one percent or two percent in constant currency.

IBM, Mainframes, Business, Technology, Finance

5 points by belter 242 days ago | 0 comments

The Future of Big Iron: An Interview with IBM’s Christian Jacobi (morethanmoore.substack.com)
Any article about IBM’s big mainframe hardware waxes lyrical about the ‘good-old days’ of multi-generational backwards compatible processing that props up almost every key industry world-wide due to features such as 9x9 (99.999999%) uptime, security, and hardware focused on database and transaction processing.

IBM, Hardware, Mainframes, Business, Technology

84 points by rbanffy 255 days ago | 49 comments

Telum II at Hot Chips 2024: Mainframe with a Unique Caching Strategy (chipsandcheese.com)
Mainframes still play a vital role in today, providing extremely high uptime and low latency for financial transactions.