Lynn: This has nothing to do with EC12, or top-mounted cables. Are you generating these posts programmatically? Please stop if so. You have some interesting things to contirbute, but random word-matching doesn't qualify.
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <l...@garlic.com>wrote: > john.mck...@healthmarkets.com (McKown, John) writes: > > Why am I getting a vision of Medusa? Or perhaps a sea anemone? > > Tentacles reaching out to entrap prey. Pity the small servers in the > > room, getting lashed with FICON cables. <GRIN> > > IBM 1991 (power) cluster scaleup with fiber-channel (FICON is layered on > top of base fiber-channel standard) was in fact code-named *MEDUSA* > ... old email (fiber-channel was common use in non-mainframe long before > FICON): > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa > > the cluster scaleup for commercial (128 systems), also referenced here > regarding early jan1992 meeting in ellison's conference room > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13 > > as part of IBM's ha/cmp product ... old posts > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp > > mainframe DB2 were complaining that if I was allowed to continue, it > would be a minimum of five years (if not decades) ahead of them. the > issue was this predated IBM's non-mainframe DB2 products, so had to go > to other vendors to get RDBMS on IBM's non-mainframes. These vendors > tended to have relatively common source base for both their vax-cluster > and unix platforms ... so the issue was to adapt their vax-cluster > support to unix platform and scale it up. > > possibly within hrs of the last "medusa" email end of jan92, the > cluster-scaleup was transferred and we were told that we couldn't work > on anything with more than four processors. A couple weeks later, it was > announced as supercomputer for numerical intensive only ... press from > 17Feb1992 for *scientifica nd technical only* > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters1 > another press item fro 11May1992 > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters2 > > nearly 20yrs later ... "From the Annals of Release No Software Before > Its Time" (Power DB2 with cluster of 100 systems) > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009p.html#43 > > rebranded pureScale ... > http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/28593.wss > > current tpc-c (rdbms) results/rankings > http://www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_perf_results.asp > > -- > virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
