Re: Article on new mainframe use

On 8/15/2024 9:04 AM, George Neuner wrote:

On Wed, 14 Aug 2024 20:14:57 +0000, mitchalsup@aol.com (MitchAlsup1)
wrote:
 

It says:: "please enable JS and disable add-blocker"
>
ha

 8-)  I do allow JS, but I tightly control it with NoScript.
   The article started ok, talking about how certain applications are
latency sensitive and how they could benefit from having an AI be
resident on the mainframe.

Yes.

 Actually a good portion of the article seemed rather positive on the
idea of implementing AI models on mainframes.  Unfortunately it
devolves into implications that AI doesn't play nice with COBOL and
that mainframes can't be programmed in other languages.

As I sort of said in my original post, I agree with your comment completely.

 Not knowing COBOL well, I can't speak to the former.

I don't know how IBM implemented its interface to the neural net chiplet, but I would guess it is some sort of function call from the main program.  Since COBOL has this capability, I don't see the problem.   And I doubt IBM would have developed the capability if it could be accessed be accessed by pretty much any language that is commonly used on its computers.  But again, I don't know the details.

The latter,
however, is bullshit.

Of course.
Another part of the article I found interesting is the market information of who uses mainframes, and the market size.
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