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Telum II at Hot Chips 2024: Mainframe with a Unique Caching Strategy
Mainframes still play a vital role in today, providing extremely high uptime and low latency for financial transactions.
Mainframes still play a vital role in today, providing extremely high uptime and low latency for financial transactions. A CPC can’t operate independently like a server because it doesn’t include non-volatile storage or a power supply unit, but it does place a set of CPUs and DRAM in close physical proximity. Telum II and prior IBM mainframe chips handle server tasks like financial transactions, but curiously seem to prioritize single threaded performance.
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