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Mainframes are still a big thing (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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Mainframe vs High-Performance Computing

The mainframe was designed to be as performant as possible. It's just extremely expensive to scale vertically, even if you can. HPC seems very similar in terms of availability and time sharing. They have different workloads. Their intentions are different. We're going to do what needs to be done.

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