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
