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Re:The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives by redandblack on Monday July 24, 2023 @09:56AM (#36848068)
Used to be great for vector processing for numerical analysis, although not sure anymore
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Re:The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives by js8 on Monday July 24, 2023 @10:06AM (#36848236)
Since z13 vector instructions are supported again. But I doubt anybody uses them.
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Re:The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives by edelsohn on Monday July 24, 2023 @12:31PM (#36850583)
The original vector facility is gone, but the Z Vector Extension (VX) is utilized by AI/ML software, such as NumPy, OpenBLAS, etc.
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Re:The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives by rbanffy on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @06:36AM (#36860372)
And the bulk of the Telum processor is an inference engine, in essence a very large vector processor (although one tailored for AI inference workloads).
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