Re: New Cluster Interconnects

Richard Maher wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was flicking through the OpenVMS Roadmap presentation yesterday and
came
> across a couple of very interesting  (at least to me) milestones
regarding
> Cluster Interconnects. Now, I'm pretty useless with hardware, "the laws
of
> physics capt'n", and not much better as a System Manager so I hope
someone
> can offer me a lay-man's view of what these developments could mean for
VMS
> Cluster performance. (In particular the VMS Lock Manager.)
> 
> 1) I saw 10 Gigabit NIC sup****t scheduled for VMS 8.3 (Depending on
which
> slide you look at it says "Integrity Servers Only"). Now 10x what a lot
of
> people are using for a cluster-interconnect at the moment sounds pretty
> ****-hot to me! .
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> 
> 2) Next Generation Low-Latency Interconnects Post 8.3 (Integrity Servers
> Only)
> 
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> Am I the only person getting their jollies out of this or what?
> 
> Regards Richard (Just off to have a cold shower) Maher
> 
> 

I'd be a lot more excited if they weren't artifically limiting it to the 
intel based servers.  It'll be a long time before those capabilities 'on 
integrity' matter to us or any of our customers.

Still, its good news for the long run.