[Pox]

The number of CPU's per blade will not address all of the "advantages" that "Mainframes" still and will continue to provide. The applications also depend significantly on available memory to support active users.

Other developments, such as distributed processing techniques used by todays supercomputers, are what is needed to finally put mainframes to rest, but seeing as I depend on those servers for a job at this time, I'm in no hurry to see it happen! :)

[zeugma]

Other developments, such as distributed processing techniques used by todays supercomputers, are what is needed to finally put mainframes to rest, but seeing as I depend on those servers for a job at this time, I'm in no hurry to see it happen! :)

Seems like people have been predicting the demise of the mainframe since Ogg was first chiseling his printout in stone. I ain't holding my breath on it though. There are still applications where only a mainframe makes sense, especially tasks that have to move a lot of data, and can't be broken up easily into parallel processes.