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Re:We were wrong about GPUs by PaulHoule on Friday February 14, 2025 @08:35PM (#43054977)
This mainframe system from the 1990s was so much simpler

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/6.x?topic=sysplex-parall...

even if it wasn't as scalable as Kube. One the other hand, a cluster of 32 CMOS mainframe could handle any commercial computing job that people were doing in the 1990s.

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Re:We were wrong about GPUs by sanderjd on Friday February 14, 2025 @09:06PM (#43055166)
It's not simple but it's not opaque.
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Re:We were wrong about GPUs by closewith on Saturday February 15, 2025 @08:05AM (#43058214)
Seems the causality is going the wrong direction there. Commercial jobs were limited by mainframe constraints, so that's where job sizes topped out.
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