Mainframes

These are big machines with lots of processing power, they are used by companies to process in bulk or to render large files quickly. This is useful in a large company that might not have the time or money to use a standard PC to process everything. A mainframe can contain several computers that all render in a "render farm" or can all process something together to take the stress of the work down. A mainframe is defined as having "redundant internal engineering" resulting in high reliability and being very secure, they have strict backwards compatibility with older software, and are very good at utilising their resources to complete a high amount of work as quickly as possible. Mainframes can also be known as large scale networks because they link different computers up to become one computer.