NASA has shut down its last mainframe, the space agency's chief information officer announced over the weekend. Linda Cureton said on Saturday that some organisations still needed the ...

It’s somewhat hard to imagine that NASA doesn’t need the computing power of an IBM mainframe any more but NASA CIO posted on her blog today at the end of the month, the Big Iron will be no more at the ...

NASA shut down its last mainframe computer earlier this month, ending an era for the agency, Chief Information Officer Linda Cureton said in a blog post. In my first stint at NASA, I was at NASA’s ...

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All the high-end space projects and space travel that go on at NASA require some serious computing power. For a lot of years NASA has operated IBM Z9 mainframe computers. NASA describes the Z9 ...

NASA has shut down its last mainframe computer earlier this month, marking an end of an era for the US space agency’s computing, NASA CIO Linda Cureton wrote in a blog post. The agency’s last ...

It's the end of another era at NASA, although this one was perhaps more inevitable than others. Chief Information Officer Linda Cureton announced in a blog post over the weekend that the agency's last ...

First the Space Shuttle, now the mainframe. It seems like NASA is doing away with the last vestiges of its swinging '70s heyday, when TV astronauts were played by stars such as Farrah Fawcett. NASA ...

-- Sittra Battle flipped a switch at Marshall Space Flight Center Jan. 26 and shut down NASA's last mainframe computer. That switch flip made Battle and the refrigerator-sized IBM Z9 somewhat famous ...

The space agency powers down its last System Z machine, years after IBM stopped selling them for the mathematical calculation jobs for which NASA originally bought them. Stephen Shankland worked at ...

It's the end of an era; NASA announced this week that it has shut down its last mainframe computer. The last NASA mainframe, the IBM Z9, was powered down at Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama ...