Web Foil MIXED 25 The Case for Parallel COBOL?

Parallel computing is clearly applicable for the myriad of small transactions
  • We can in parallel each get money from our ATM for our trip
But there are important "batch jobs" typically written in COBOL
  • e.g. Summarize corporate inventories
This is the dusty COBOL deck problem. Both
  • Parallel processing
  • 24 hour a day operation implied by global economy - large programs used to run overnight, but our night is day somewhere in the world! Causes difficulties
Need "High Performance COBOL" compilers?


See also color IMAGE Foil 25 The Case for Parallel COBOL?

From HPCC Applications in Industry IDA Presentation -- October 31,1994. by Geoffrey C. Fox-Foils prepared April 9,1995


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