Virtualization is a RECENT mainframe trend? Only if you count 1970 as recent.
Virtualization is a RECENT trend in toy computers, not mainframes. They did it first.
And as to whether it's faster or slower than a PC...it's really workload dependent. You have 5000 employees who need to access the same data, say your airline reservation system? Try that on a farm of Intel servers and you're out of business!
You wanna play Crisys? I wouldn't try that on your z10 anytime soon.
Wow...the author of the article thinks that the difference between RISC and CISC is how much memory the programs can take up? He needs to get a serious education in computers before writing about them.
Power, dude. If you cut the waste power in the lighting of the display from 95% to 90%, you've cut about in half the amount of energy needed to produce lighting for a display at a given brightness. Since lighting the display is the biggest single item in portable electronics energy budgets, this would allow longer lifespans, smaller, lighter devices, and more functionality - all at the same time.
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Virtualization is a RECENT mainframe trend? Only if you count 1970 as recent. Virtualization is a RECENT trend in toy computers, not mainframes. They did it first. And as to whether it's faster or slower than a PC...it's really workload dependent. You have 5000 employees who need to access the same data, say your airline reservation system? Try that on a farm of Intel servers and you're out of business! You wanna play Crisys? I wouldn't try that on your z10 anytime soon.
Wow...the author of the article thinks that the difference between RISC and CISC is how much memory the programs can take up? He needs to get a serious education in computers before writing about them.
Power, dude. If you cut the waste power in the lighting of the display from 95% to 90%, you've cut about in half the amount of energy needed to produce lighting for a display at a given brightness. Since lighting the display is the biggest single item in portable electronics energy budgets, this would allow longer lifespans, smaller, lighter devices, and more functionality - all at the same time.