[Vms.sig-hu] OpenVMS Pearl - OK for external use - another mixed architecture cluster (fwd)

[Fodor Zsuzsa]

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Dátum: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 15:09:55 -0500
Feladó: Skonetski, Susan <susan.skonetski at hp.com>
Címzett: Skonetski, Susan <susan.skonetski at hp.com>
Tárgy: OpenVMS Pearl - OK for external use - another mixed 
architecture cluster

Dear Distribution lists,

This is part of a de-brief from an event that took place on Tuesday.
Internal folks I promise this is the last Pearl of the day.

The day just keeps getting better!

Sue

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The recent HP User Group event at HP Labs, Bristol, UK on 3rd Feb, 
2004
was given by Colin Butcher (XDelta Limited), Ray Turner (OpenVMS
Ambassador in HP UK pre-sales) and Martin Riley (HP AlphaServer UK
Product Manager). Judging by the feedback forms the day proved to be
extremely successful. HP Labs in Bristol provided a very pleasant
environment.

The day started with a running cluster consisting of an Integrity Server
RX2600 (OpenVMS V8.1), an Alpha DS20E (OpenVMS V7.3-2) and a VAX
4000-100 (OpenVMS V7.3). This was built by Colin using 100Mbit/sec 
Fast
Ethernet with a Digital Networks managed switch and a Nemonix Fast
Ethernet / SCSI adapter for the VAX. Please note that VAX and Integrity
mixed architecture clusters will not be supported. Alpha and Integrity
mixed architecture clusters will be supported. This unsupported three
architecture cluster configuration was quickly built to demonstrate some
of the possibilities. It worked enough for the purposes of the day. You
own experience might well be different.

The day continued with an explanation of some OpenVMS fundamentals,
especially partitioning and Galaxy, leading into a discussion of how
OpenVMS boots and detects hardware devices on the different 
hardware
platforms. The discussion highlighted the significant effort required of
the OpenVMS Engineering group to understand the Intel based 
hardware /
firmware environment and be able to make it work in the context of
OpenVMS. The final part of the demonstrations was the installation of
OpenVMS onto the different hardware platforms. As expected the main
interest was in seeing the RX2600 systems and getting a feel for the
console level commands and behavior.

Attendees then had time to experience the RX2600 systems for 
themselves,
Ray Turner having been able to provide 2x single processor RX2600s 
and a
dual processor RX2600 for demonstration purposes.

Martin Riley concluded the day with a discussion of the future for the
BCS division and included an announcement for ES45/47 purchasers.

The slides are available at http://www.xdelta.co.uk/training.html