17 Dec
2018
17 Dec
'18
7:27 p.m.
On Mon, 17 Dec 2018, Tapley, Mark via cctalk wrote:
Wikipedia reports there is some variability in ES45
models, including
number of CPU and amount of memory. Any idea what model/spec these are?
If I recall correctly the ES45s each have 2 CPUs. The three ES45s
are not intentical, the one that was purchased first had a CPU upgrade
after a couple years but I do not recall either part number. I have no
idea what the other two have for CPUs. Two of them have 32Gbyte of RAM,
the cold spare is unknown.
Also: ?...The AlphaServer SC was a supercomputer
constructed from a set of
These were single computers that happen to be in the same rack. Two of
them have the special HP cluster card whose name and number I forget so they
were formed into a TruCluster once upon a time.
I hope hard enough that this cluster gets saved that
if no-one else comes
forward, I?d like to be notified?.I?m not certain what I could arrange,
but the thought of running my own personal Alpha supercomputer ? wow. Not
sure how to solve the license issue though. I assume OpenVMS doesn?t
support that level of parallelization?
I assume that VMS does support that level of parallelization. Anything
Tru64 Unix does VMS does better. Anything Linux does Tru64 Unix does
better.
Have I made my bigotry clear?
You will seriously raise your electric bill and somewhat lower your
heating bill. All of this hardware is 120V single phase but it would
like a couple circuit breakers all to itself.
--
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Athabasca, Alberta Canada : our heads are naked!"
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18 Dec
18 Dec
12:46 a.m.
On Dec 17, 2018, at 4:49 PM, Al Kossow via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 12/17/18 4:27 PM, Richard Loken via cctalk wrote:
Face it Al, there is no better OS than VMS. I for one am looking forwards to the
completion of the port to Xeon.
Zane
Anything
Tru64 Unix does VMS does better. Anything Linux does Tru64 Unix does
better.
Have I made my bigotry clear?
Spoken like a true VMS Jackass
Some things stay constant over the DECades 
17 Dec
17 Dec
9 p.m.
On 12/17/18 5:27 PM, Richard Loken via cctalk wrote:
Anything Tru64 Unix does VMS does better. Anything
Linux does Tru64
Unix does better.
If that's true, then I would expect Tru64 to have better support of
modern cryptographic ciphers than Linux. Carrying your analogy further,
I'd expect to see bleeding edge development on future ciphers on
(Open)VMS systems.
Have I made my bigotry clear?
Yep.
Have I? }:-)
You will seriously raise your electric bill and
somewhat lower your
heating bill. All of this hardware is 120V single phase but it would
like a couple circuit breakers all to itself.
Do the breakers need to come from /my/ breaker panel? Or do the Alphas
care if they come from my neighbors house?
...Assuming that there's no sneak current or cross phase issues. I
guess I could power them completely from my neighbor's place and just
link our houses with optical fiber. :-D Or wireless! Seeing as how
Linux sort of supports wireless, (Open)VMS is bound to have support for it.
--
Grant. . . .
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