Replacing mechanical/magnetic components with a supercomputer

A computer system comprising:

• a supercomputer comprising a memory device and a plurality of interconnected hardware processors capable of performing parallel processing;
• a mainframe computer comprising one or more hardware processors coupled to the supercomputer;
• and
• an application running on the mainframe computer and accessing data stored on the supercomputer;
• the supercomputer having faster processing capability than the mainframe computer in data processing,
• the supercomputer functioning as a part of the mainframe computer's memory hierarchy
• wherein the data stored on the supercomputer is accessed by invoking an interface command from the mainframe computer,
• wherein the supercomputer is placed within a threshold distance from the mainframe computer such that a latency in accessing the data on the supercomputer from the application running on the mainframe computer does not exceed a threshold latency value.

A computer system comprising:

• a supercomputer comprising a memory device and a plurality of interconnected hardware processors capable of performing parallel processing;
• a mainframe computer comprising one or more hardware processors coupled to the supercomputer,
• the supercomputer having faster processing capability than the mainframe computer in data processing,
• the supercomputer functioning as a part of the mainframe computer's memory hierarchy;
• a first application running on the mainframe computer;
• and
• a second application running on the supercomputer,
• wherein the supercomputer stores data for the first application to produce a result,
• wherein the first application invokes the second application to search the data and generate a model based on the data, the result produced based on the model,
• the second application communicating the result to the first application, wherein the supercomputer is placed within a threshold distance of the mainframe computer such that a latency in receiving the result by the first application from the supercomputer does not exceed a threshold latency value.

A computer readable storage medium storing a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform a method comprising:

• running a first application on a mainframe computer coupled to a supercomputer, the supercomputer having faster processing capability than the mainframe computer in data processing, the supercomputer storing data for producing a result for the first application;
• and
• invoking from the first application running on the mainframe, an interface command to invoke a second application on the supercomputer,
• the supercomputer functioning as a part of the mainframe computer's memory hierarchy, wherein the supercomputer is placed within a threshold distance of the mainframe computer such that a latency in receiving the result by the first application from the supercomputer does not exceed a threshold latency value.