Re:State of the OpenVMS Port to x86_64 [pdf]
by gaius on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @12:24PM
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VMScluster still blows away anything else. 20 years ago it was doing what you can only now do with vMotion now... And being able to set a working set per job... And a coherent story for cross-language libraries... I could go on. VMS was a technological tour de force that has yet to be rivalled.
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Re:State of the OpenVMS Port to x86_64 [pdf]
by dekhn on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @02:12PM
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What cluster features were in VMScluster that weren't also in TruCluster? To me the interesting part of TruCluster was the shared filesystem and the application failover. That said, I work for a company now that eschews that kind of tight coupling, because it's expensive to scale the hardware.