[tech] searching for DEC-compatible network cards

[Davyd Madeley]

On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 17:34 +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:

> Another option (perhaps easier?) would be to drop in leftover drives
> to boot the kernel off and $generic GigE cards for everything else.

Indeed, that may be an option. With the challenges of clustering, ie.
making sure machines are running the same kernel version and tools etc.
Network booting would be a really nice thing to have. I seem to recall
that version 7 of SRM was released recently. Perhaps this plays nice
with more things.

Research is proving it challenging to actually find free/libre
clustering software that works on Alpha. It looks like something called
OpenSSI.org is adding support for Alpha, but I can't seem to find out
what the status of that port is.

I suppose there is always the classic favourite of OpenVMS, or we could
try going to HP to get a license for TruCluster.

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