>> Acceptable, adequate, satisfactory.
>> Frequently used humorously or ironically in recognition of its origin as an invented word in the television programme The Simpsons (see quot. 1996).
As is 'embiggen', namely 'transitive. To make bigger or greater, to enlarge.'
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And it's a shame they used it incorrectly in the title - "embiggen" means "enlarge, make bigger", not "become bigger" which is the case with Power11
Very confusing title...
Are they meant to be two different tiers of mainframe processors?
You would typically install software like your CRM, ERP and web servers on the IBM Power systems. These would then talk to the mainframe (System Z / Telum) to handle any extremely high stakes business activity.
A healthy all-in IBM organization would be using both of these technologies for what they're best suited for. If you run salesforce and your GH enterprise instance on the mainframe, you are going to be spending a LOT of money compared to the alternative.
The other side of POWER is IBMi (the heir to the AS/400 platform). It is an incredibly interesting take on the whole operating system concept, possibly even more alien than z/OS is for people who grew up on Unix. It feels a bit like an image-based system like Smalltalk, but taken to the extreme.
I hope POWER12 inherits some of Telum’s cache goodness. IBM should be talking a bit about POWER12 at this year’s Hot Chips conference.
Used for ex nightly batch processing at banks. Lots of horse power for your on prem needs. Moving this kind of horse power to the cloud would be insanely expensive and complex for the mid size banks relying on these systems.
They shipped these massive boxes out and connected them to massive SANs. You could license the processors later if your workload grew.
I spent a year as consultant to big customers building SOA, websites, SSO for whatever they needed. ATM networks with low latency etc.
FrankWilhoit•6mo ago
Fade_Dance•6mo ago
I've never understood why these processors really exist before, but I think that makes sense.
The traditional Z mainframes (focused on uptime to the point where everything is hot swappable while running and redundant) I did understand as probably having some valid use deep inside the financial system and defense, but the enterprise facing solutions like power I never really got.
Anyway if anyone has more to add I'd like to hear it. Is my first paragraph mostly it?