2 Aug
2002
2 Aug
'02
3:39 p.m.
At 05:19 PM 2/08/2002 -0400, Jason McBrien wrote:
A Star Coupler is used to cluster VAXen together, to
create a big, uberVAX.
They could share peripherials and, more importanly, disk storage. Unless you
have a bunch of VAXes, and I don't mean MicroVAX, it's mostly useless.
A Star Coupler is a passive interconnect for systems using CI (Cluster
Inconnect). It
is used by VAXen and Alpha based systems to form Clusters which can share
various
things.
I understand (and hope to be corrected by posting here) that the CI
technology was
originally developed as a method of sharing storage for DECSYSTEM-20 systems.
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