[tech] searching for DEC-compatible network cards

Adrian Chadd adrian at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Sun Jul 3 18:27:49 WST 2005


On Sat, Jul 02, 2005, Davyd Madeley wrote:

> I was hoping for one of those cool SSI implementations where the cluster
> appears as one 14 CPU machine with a shared ps tree, filesystem and what
> have you. We'll investigate OpenSSI more when we have them booting
> something.
> 
> > > I suppose there is always the classic favourite of OpenVMS, or we could
> > > try going to HP to get a license for TruCluster.
> > 
> > Well, we don't have any OpenVMS machines at UCC (at least not
> > user-accessible) so these Alphas could buck that trend :-)
> 
> True. The question is would a 14 CPU VMS cluster get used for anything.
> I believe that programming for VMS is a little more challenging then
> programming for UNIX. Of course, would a 14 CPU UNIX cluster really get
> used, or would it just become the latest thing to strain under Nick's
> enormous mailbox?

I don't think either would really be used. There's plenty of CPU and
resources there if someone had a project requiring it, but who is?



Adrian



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