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| Newer page: | version 3 | Last edited on Wednesday, April 14, 2004 3:45:06 pm | by AristotlePagaltzis | Revert |
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-Large, expensive, ultra-
fast computers. Used generally of
number crunching supercomputers such as
[Cray
]s, but can include more conventional big commercial
[IBM]ish mainframes. The term implies approval
, in contrast to [Dinosaur].%%%%%%
-From: http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?query=bigiron
-%%%%%%
-This term has evolved a broader scope that
also includes ''
expensive''
x86 servers
.
+Large, expensive, and very
fast computers used either for
number crunching or DataBase serving. As processing power become more and more of a commodity, the term became more and more inclusive. Originally referring to
supercomputers like the Crays, it was later expanded to
[MainFrame
]s such as those built by
[IBM], and nowadays is sometimes
also applied to very
expensive [
x86] hardware -- usually large-scale [SMP] machines with large [RAID] arrays
.
