[HECnet] Getting a virtual cluster connected

[Cory Smelosky]

On 25 Dec 2012, at 15:19, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:

On 12/25/2012 03:05 PM, Cory Smelosky wrote:
Brian (Hechinger) and I once discussed the possibility of implementing
a similar clustering system within NetBSD.   I think just implementing
the SCS protocol itself would be a good start.   I wonder if there's
enough documentation out there to do it.

What'd be really interesting is joining that to a VMS cluster. ;)

It would be a huge amount of work, and I'm not sure it'd be practical.
There are a lot of things in VMS that just don't have a mappable
counterpart in the UNIX world.   RMS, for instance.

And a versioned filesystem. ;)


Brian H and I were discussing this (this was, what, eight years ago
Brian?) in the context of building a tightly-coupled cluster of NetBSD
machines, with the same basic capabilities (as adjusted for the
environment) as VMS' clustering...tight shared filesystem, distributed
locking, etc.   We even discussed process migration.

Nice! I still don't see why it's taking UNIX/Linux so long to catch up to features VMS has had since the '80s. ;)


If only we had more free time. :-(

                        -Dave

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