Mainframe return on investment ( ROI ), like any other computing platform, is dependent on its ability to scale, support mixed workloads, reduce labor costs, deliver uninterrupted service for critical business applications, and several other risk-adjusted cost factors.

* Mainframe is the name of two fictional characters from Marvel Comics:

* Mainframe ( Transformers ) is an Autobot character in the Transformers series

* Mainframe is the city in which the CGI cartoon ReBoot takes place

The behavior of a trusted system is often characterized in terms of a mathematical model — which may be more or less rigorous, depending upon applicable operational and administrative constraints — that takes the form of a finite state machine ( FSM ) with state criteria ; state transition constraints ; a set of " operations " that correspond to state transitions ( usually, but not necessarily, one ); and a descriptive top-level specification, or DTLS, entailing a user-perceptible interface ( e. g., an API, a set of system calls UNIX parlance or system exits Mainframe computer | mainframe parlance ), each element of which engenders one or more model operations.

The setting is in the inner world of a computer system known by its inhabitants as Mainframe.

However, the Kits sector is named for Kitsilano, a neighbourhood in Vancouver, Mainframe Entertainment's home city.

Mainframe is populated almost entirely by binomes, little creatures that represent either 1s or 0s, as well as a handful of Sprites who are primarily humanoid creatures of more complex design and are the main characters of the series.

The first Paradigms Lost issue ( Paradigms Lost ) opens with the aftermath of the Hunt: Mainframe is devastated and overrun with Zombinomes, the User is missing, and the entire population is being evacuated to the Super Computer.

While Dot tries to carry out rebel action in Mainframe, Bob and Lens have to retreat to the bowels of the Super-Computer to hide, while Enzo is one of those captured and discovers Megabyte ( his code retained by Gnosis ) is a key Gnosis advisor.

Rainmaker Entertainment, Inc. ( formerly Mainframe Entertainment Inc .) is a Canadian computer animation and design company based in Vancouver, British Columbia and Los Angeles, California.

Beast Machines is an animated television series produced by Mainframe Entertainment and distributed by Universal Pictures and Columbia Tristar International Television ( Latin-America ).

Shadow Raiders is an animated television series produced by Mainframe Entertainment ( now known as Rainmaker Entertainment ) that aired from 1998 to 1999.

However, it is hinted within the pages of A-Next # 2 that Mainframe mentioned there was a Skrull invasion in this universe's past.

In the episode " Six Degrees of Separation ", Baltar is accused of being a traitor to the human race when a flesh-and-blood Number Six ( after Baltar and Virtual Six have a heated argument over whether or not God exists ) shows photographic evidence Baltar carried an explosive device into the Colonial Defense Mainframe on Caprica, allowing the Cylons to carry out their nuclear attack.

He heads back to Seattle, where he finds Mainframe, and gives him the hard drive that Scarlett requested, containing information about Springfield, which is where the two rogue Joes head.

Mainframe and other large processing software is still sold by the type and number of processors the software runs on.

It is computer-animated, produced by Mainframe Entertainment out of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, which also produced ReBoot and distributed by Warner Bros.

* IT Infrastructure Management Services ( ISD )-Well known as HCL Comnet Systems and Services is subdivion of HCL Technologies formed in 1999 offering services such as End User Computing, Datacenter Transformation, Network Services, Information Security Services, Integrated Operations Management, Cross functional services, Mainframe and AS / 400 and System Integration. ISD is considered to be the fastest growing line of business.

Remote job entry is the process of sending jobs to Mainframe computers from remote workstations, and by extension the process of receiving output from mainframe jobs at a remote workstation.

When The User loads a game, a game cube drops on a random location in Mainframe, sealing it off from the rest of the system and turning it into a gamescape.

Gigabyte was eventually neutralized as well, but the Web creature escaped into the bowels of Mainframe, where it began stealing energy to stay alive and grow.

The season started with Enzo, freshly upgraded into a Guardian candidate by Bob during the Web incursion, defending Mainframe from Megabyte and Hexadecimal, with Dot and AndrAIa at his side.

The time spent in games and away from Mainframe has hardened both Matrix and AndrAIa ; Matrix has developed a pathological hatred of Megabyte, and has grown into an overly muscled, shoot-first-ask-question-later hero, while AndrAIa has turned into a calm and level-headed warrior.

Long before the movie War Games went into pre-production, The Warelords had successfully infiltrated such corporations and institutions as The White House, Southwestern Bell " Ma Bell " Mainframe Systems, and large corporate providers of voice mail systems.

Three battlestars in orbit of Caprica detected them, but one of the Hybrids hacked into the Defense Mainframe using the CNP backdoor and shut it down so the people on the ground couldn't detect them and defend against them.

You are now eligible to hack into the Fowl Mainframe at artemisfowl. co. uk.

Hasbro also wanted the " Mutant Heads " found on all of the deluxe sized first year toys as battle helmets, but Mainframe scrapped the idea as it would have required three animation models for each character instead of two.

", produced by Mainframe and also on " Open Up Their Eyes " by Italian producer Fabio Musta.

The show was made using computer generated imagery ( CGI ) rendered in cel shading and was produced by Mainframe Entertainment ( Executive Producer Brian Michael Bendis, who also wrote the Ultimate Spider-Man comic book ) for Sony Pictures Television and broadcast on MTV, and YTV.

The captains of the Zion Hovercraft Fleet also have strict access to key data in the Zion Mainframe, and have political bearing with the population.

As part of the promotion for the film there was an official website for the fictional Multiverse Authority called the " MVA Mainframe ".

A few systems run MUSIC / SP and UTS ( Mainframe UNIX ).

* " The History of ReBoot ", " Mainframe City Locations " ( 2001 ).

* IBM Mainframe utility IEBUPDTE a mainframe patch program, created about 20 years earlier ( circa ~ 1964 ).

Here in these little rooms -- or stages arched open to the sky and river -- they choose a few lines out of the hundreds they may know and sing them according to one of the modes into which Persian music is divided.

If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

that is, he is suspect, guilty, punishable, as is anyone in Mann's stories who produces illusion, and this is true even though the constant elements of the artist-nature, technique, magic, guilt and suffering, are divided in this story between Jacoby and Lautner.

This system is divided into a forest highway system, administered by the Secretary of Commerce, and a forest development road and trail system, administered by the Secretary of Agriculture.

The lower number is always divided into the upper number: Af

We divided the country into five regions plus Hawaii and Alaska and in each is included a general description of the area plus specific recommendations of places and events to cover.

Dirt, which is here defined as particulate material which is usually inorganic and is very often extremely finely divided so as to exhibit colloidal properties.

Confused and divided though this tradition may be, it is an important part of the social and cultural heritage of the group, and acts as a means of socialization, particularly for members of the rural community.

Also, the dictionary is divided into at least two parts: the list of dictionary forms and the file of information that pertains to these forms.

How to achieve this objective is a problem, but we are not divided on what we want.

This is a problem, but we are not divided over its importance or by its existence.

This is the Powell Amendment, which in 1957 divided even a `` liberal '' group like the American Veterans Committee ( AVC ).

The book is divided into chapters and in each chapter the material is grouped into Text, Tables, Illustrations, and Bibliography.

World production of about 1 million tons is divided primarily between Africa ( 63 percent ) and South America ( 27 percent ).

Split badly during the recent presidential election into almost equally divided camps of party loyalists and independents, the Democratic party in Mississippi is currently a wreck.

The population of the Congo is 13.5 million, divided into at least seven major `` culture clusters '' and innumerable tribes speaking 400 separate dialects.

The major part of this collection is in the central headquarters building, and the remainder is divided among five libraries in the system designated as subject centers.

In the United States, where anthropology was first defined as a discipline, the field is traditionally divided into four sub-fields: cultural anthropology, archaeology, linguistic anthropology, and biological anthropology.