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Computing: The Mainframe Strikes Back

By Dick Weisinger

Do companies still use mainframes? Do people even remember what a mainframe is? The answer at least to the first question is ‘Yes’. A Forrester report found that, of those companies that still use mainframes, they’re using mainframes even more

Serverless Computing: Event-Driven Software is Changing Software Design

By Dick Weisinger

Serverless computing is true on-demand computing. Software is in the cloud and waits for an event to occur that will kick it off, causing resources to be provisioned and the software to be run. Serverless enables the cloud to be

SuperComputing: Racing Against China to Build an Exaflop Speed Computer

By Dick Weisinger

The Department of Energy has awarded six US computer companies $258 million to research the development of a large super-fast computing system.  The grants support research in the areas of hardware, software and application development. The six companies are: AMD, Cray,