What does one use a mainframe for these days? I'm assuming projects that require massive parellelism, like research projects or engineering modeling and computation?
For those of us with only exposure to PCs and commodity servers, I'd be interested to know who has encountered one in their day to day, and how that experience differed from the norm.
For those of us with only exposure to PCs and commodity servers, I'd be interested to know who has encountered one in their day to day, and how that experience differed from the norm.