[HECnet] Getting a virtual cluster connected

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. 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. If only we had more free time. :-( -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA