Systems Architecture
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Chapter 2, Problem 1VE
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“Mainframe” is used to optimize the data storage and I/O capability and computational capacity and speed is generally optimized by “supercomputers”.
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Mainframe computer:
- Mainframe computers are mainly used by large organizations for handling critical applications.
- It is a huge and more powerful server class enhanced for storing data and I/O capacity.
- It is capable of sharing large resources in the organization like
database and e-commerce web sites.
Super computers:
- Super computer is generally very fast and more powerful which is used to optimize the computational speed while dealing complex problems.
- It focuses on the applications like data mining and analytics, 3D modeling and simulation and predication of weather and climate.
- Super computers can carry processing the scientific data on a single computer or group of computers.
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