Mainframe
noun
A large and powerful computer that can be used by many people at the same time.
A mainframe computer is generally much larger and more powerful than a personal computer.
Often appears as...
- mainframe computer
- mainframe system
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Technical
noun
A large and powerful computer that can be used by many people at the same time.
A mainframe computer is generally much larger and more powerful than a personal computer.
Often appears as...
- mainframe computer
- mainframe system
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Corporate Use
Mainframe is often associated with large businesses and government for massive data processing.
The bank’s mainframe handles millions of transactions daily.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Personal
A mainframe isn't for personal use; it serves multiple users in a networked environment.
Employees log into the mainframe to access the company database.
Pro Tip 3/3High Capacity
Mainframes are capable of storing and processing huge amounts of data quickly.
Airline reservations are processed on a mainframe to handle the high volume of data.
Pro Tip 1/3Corporate Use
Mainframe is often associated with large businesses and government for massive data processing.
The bank’s mainframe handles millions of transactions daily.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Personal
A mainframe isn't for personal use; it serves multiple users in a networked environment.
Employees log into the mainframe to access the company database.
Pro Tip 3/3High Capacity
Mainframes are capable of storing and processing huge amounts of data quickly.
Airline reservations are processed on a mainframe to handle the high volume of data.
Pro Tip 1/3Corporate Use
Mainframe is often associated with large businesses and government for massive data processing.
The bank’s mainframe handles millions of transactions daily.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Personal
A mainframe isn't for personal use; it serves multiple users in a networked environment.
Employees log into the mainframe to access the company database.
Pro Tip 3/3High Capacity
Mainframes are capable of storing and processing huge amounts of data quickly.
Airline reservations are processed on a mainframe to handle the high volume of data.
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Eric Dishman: Health...
The future that Intel's working on now is to figure out how to make that computing for personalized medicine go from months and weeks to even hours, and make this kind of tool available, not just in the mainframes of tier-one research hospitals around the world, but in the mainstream -- every patient, every clinic
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Rodney Brooks: Why we...
to help the librarians. The librarians in the company would do things like answer for the executives, "What are the names of Santa's reindeer?" And they would look that up. And this mainframe computer was going to help them with that job. Well of course a mainframe computer in 1957 wasn't much use for that job.
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Eric Dishman: Take...
that shift from mainframe to personal computing is what we have to do for healthcare. We have to shift from this mainframe mentality of healthcare to a personal model of healthcare. We are obsessed with this way of thinking. When Intel does surveys all around the world and we say,
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Meet the inventor of the...
and all of the other numbers you did were wrong. And you couldn't participate as well. And we were marked by class participation. So, sitting there with 87 other people in the class, I got to daydream a lot. Most programmers in those days worked on mainframes,
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How the blockchain is...
Well, it kind of reminds me of the financial services industry, honestly. I mean, you tap your card in the corner store, and a bitstream goes through a dozen companies, each with their own computer system, some of them being 1970s mainframes
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Big Data - Tim Smith
Fifty years ago, CERN's data could be stored in a single computer. OK, so it wasn't your usual computer, this was a mainframe computer that filled an entire building. To analyze the data, physicists from around the world traveled to CERN
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Beaver for Bolts PIPE Live...
piece of driftwood weather the heartwood of an old twisted cypress tree I've got it started I've gotten foundation I've got something to build on all of this is a result of months of rebuilding I've got to get the mainframe up in a few
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Can you solve the risky...
and brings them into the mainframe. It tells them which disk it corrupted, allows the agent to switch a single disk on or off, then immediately de-rezzes the agent. Your squad can make an all-out attack to break into the mainframe
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Yochai Benkler:...
and the radio transmitter, and the television, and eventually the mainframe. And that meant they were market based, or they were government owned, depending on what kind of system they were in. And this characterized and anchored
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Ge Wang: The DIY...
One hundred. All right. At this point, we've reached something that I would like to think of as the canonical computer music. This is, to me, the sound that mainframes are supposed to be making
Video examples
Eric Dishman: Health...
The future that Intel's working on now is to figure out how to make that computing for personalized medicine go from months and weeks to even hours, and make this kind of tool available, not just in the mainframes of tier-one research hospitals around the world, but in the mainstream -- every patient, every clinic
Video examples
Rodney Brooks: Why we...
to help the librarians. The librarians in the company would do things like answer for the executives, "What are the names of Santa's reindeer?" And they would look that up. And this mainframe computer was going to help them with that job. Well of course a mainframe computer in 1957 wasn't much use for that job.
Video examples
Eric Dishman: Take...
that shift from mainframe to personal computing is what we have to do for healthcare. We have to shift from this mainframe mentality of healthcare to a personal model of healthcare. We are obsessed with this way of thinking. When Intel does surveys all around the world and we say,
Video examples
Meet the inventor of the...
and all of the other numbers you did were wrong. And you couldn't participate as well. And we were marked by class participation. So, sitting there with 87 other people in the class, I got to daydream a lot. Most programmers in those days worked on mainframes,
Video examples
How the blockchain is...
Well, it kind of reminds me of the financial services industry, honestly. I mean, you tap your card in the corner store, and a bitstream goes through a dozen companies, each with their own computer system, some of them being 1970s mainframes
Video examples
Big Data - Tim Smith
Fifty years ago, CERN's data could be stored in a single computer. OK, so it wasn't your usual computer, this was a mainframe computer that filled an entire building. To analyze the data, physicists from around the world traveled to CERN
Video examples
Beaver for Bolts PIPE Live...
piece of driftwood weather the heartwood of an old twisted cypress tree I've got it started I've gotten foundation I've got something to build on all of this is a result of months of rebuilding I've got to get the mainframe up in a few
Video examples
Can you solve the risky...
and brings them into the mainframe. It tells them which disk it corrupted, allows the agent to switch a single disk on or off, then immediately de-rezzes the agent. Your squad can make an all-out attack to break into the mainframe
Video examples
Yochai Benkler:...
and the radio transmitter, and the television, and eventually the mainframe. And that meant they were market based, or they were government owned, depending on what kind of system they were in. And this characterized and anchored
Video examples
Ge Wang: The DIY...
One hundred. All right. At this point, we've reached something that I would like to think of as the canonical computer music. This is, to me, the sound that mainframes are supposed to be making
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Peter Levine
American Businessman
If you look back over the history of computing, it started as mainframes or terminals. As PCs or work stations became prevalent, computing moved to the edge, and we had applications that took advantage of edge computing and the CPU and processing power at the edge. Cloud computing brought things back to the center.
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Safra A. Catz
American Businesswoman
Oracle is my second job ever that did not involve waitressing. But I still have my waitress apron just in case this does not work out. It's just that I fell in love with software when I was programming in college. When I was an investment banker, there were mostly mainframe companies and very few software ones.
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Lynn Jurich
American Businesswoman
We're leading a fundamental shift from centralized energy to distributed energy. Energy will go in that direction, just like mainframe computers went to client servers, then to the Internet. I believe in solar, and the macro trends are just too undeniable.
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Om Malik
Indian Writer
For the longest time, computers have been associated with work. Mainframes were for the Army, government agencies, and then large companies. Workstations were for engineers and software programmers. PCs were initially for other white-collar jobs.
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Jack Dangermond
American Businessman
GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
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Eric Allin Cornell
American Physicist
Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.
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Steven Sinofsky
American Businessman
Knowledge created a new culture of business derived from the information gathering and analysis capabilities of first the mainframe and then the PC.
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Adam Lashinsky
American Editor
The reliable way great conglomerates grew over time was by adding new products and buying new companies. IBM moved from mainframe to PCs.
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Alex Stamos
American Businessman
Usernames and passwords are an idea that came out of 1970s mainframe architectures. They were not built for 2016.
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Ginni Rometty
American Businesswoman
IBM existed a good 50 years before mainframes - we started with scales.
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Peter Levine
American Businessman
If you look back over the history of computing, it started as mainframes or terminals. As PCs or work stations became prevalent, computing moved to the edge, and we had applications that took advantage of edge computing and the CPU and processing power at the edge. Cloud computing brought things back to the center.
Quote examples
Safra A. Catz
American Businesswoman
Oracle is my second job ever that did not involve waitressing. But I still have my waitress apron just in case this does not work out. It's just that I fell in love with software when I was programming in college. When I was an investment banker, there were mostly mainframe companies and very few software ones.
Quote examples
Lynn Jurich
American Businesswoman
We're leading a fundamental shift from centralized energy to distributed energy. Energy will go in that direction, just like mainframe computers went to client servers, then to the Internet. I believe in solar, and the macro trends are just too undeniable.
Quote examples
Om Malik
Indian Writer
For the longest time, computers have been associated with work. Mainframes were for the Army, government agencies, and then large companies. Workstations were for engineers and software programmers. PCs were initially for other white-collar jobs.
Quote examples
Jack Dangermond
American Businessman
GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
Quote examples
Eric Allin Cornell
American Physicist
Between rounds of speed chess I read enough of a programming manual to teach myself to write programs on the school's DEC mainframe in the language Basic.
Quote examples
Steven Sinofsky
American Businessman
Knowledge created a new culture of business derived from the information gathering and analysis capabilities of first the mainframe and then the PC.
Quote examples
Adam Lashinsky
American Editor
The reliable way great conglomerates grew over time was by adding new products and buying new companies. IBM moved from mainframe to PCs.
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Alex Stamos
American Businessman
Usernames and passwords are an idea that came out of 1970s mainframe architectures. They were not built for 2016.
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Ginni Rometty
American Businesswoman
IBM existed a good 50 years before mainframes - we started with scales.
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