As one of the two last sysprog's involved in the excessing of the NASA "mainframe" we saw the results of the decision made many years ago to go with the model of (cheaper???, smaller, better??? single server and virtual servers) with all of the associated vulnerabilities and failures.
*Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Day" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012 10:39:27 AM Subject: Re: NASA closes it's last mainframe All of the people entering the astronaut program now get an Ipod. :-P On 2/12/2012 12:35 PM, Scott Ford wrote: > Very interesting , my late father had the option to see Houston Manned > Spacecraft Center in the 70s or 80s. He worked for Unisys and their systems > at that time were all Univac. Also around the same time Disneyworld was > Unisys also. He has the option to go ack stage there also.. > > Now NASA is removing their mainframes, what are the replacing them with ? > > Sent from my iPad > Scott Ford > Senior Systems Engineer > www.identityforge.com > > > > On Feb 12, 2012, at 9:29 AM, Matthew Donald<[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> This month marks the end of an era in NASA computing. Marshall Space >>> Flight Center powered down NASA’s last mainframe, the IBM Z9 Mainframe. For >>> my millennial readers, I suppose that I should define what a mainframe is. >>> Well, that’s easier said than done, but here goes -- It’s a big >>> computer that is known for being reliable, highly available, secure, and >>> powerful. They are best suited for applications that are more >>> transaction oriented and require a lot of input/output – that is, writing >>> or reading from data storage devices. >> >> Read the full >> article<http://blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/NASA-CIO-Blog/posts/post_1329017818806.html>[ >> >> blogs.nasa.gov] >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
