Hacker News with Generative AI: Mainframes

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 18 days ago | 54 comments

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

Mainframes, Software, Technology, Computer Science, Programming

30 points by rbanffy 22 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 100 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 171 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 179 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 193 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.