[HECnet] happenings at LSSM

I usually don't send LSSM "new machine" updates here, as we're getting new hardware up and running all the time, but this is such a beefy machine that I wanted to mention it here. Over the past week we've built up a VAX-6460...Six 6000-400 processors, 384MB of RAM, Ethernet, a KDB50, and an RA90, running (for now) VMS v5.5. And the kicker: an FV64A vector processor board! We've not done anything with it yet, but it passes its diagnostics and VMS sees it. We will likely put an RA92 on it and install VMS 7.3 soon. Interestingly, the vector processor has "PROTOTYPE" stamped all over it. :) I'll try to put the vector processor through its paces with FORTRAN in the coming days. This machine will be on HECnet whenever it's powered up, as with all of our other DECnet-capable machines, we just have to pull an Ethernet cable to it and assign it an address. Assuming the vector processor runs, people here are welcome to request scheduled run times to log in and use the machine. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA