[tech] searching for DEC-compatible network cards

[Matt Johnston]

On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 06:27:49PM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> 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?

I reckon we should put two aside to run VMS though. Enough
to do vague migratey nifty things with them, but not wasting
a whole bunch.

Matt