[Info-vax] Wanted: Fresh blood in HP BCS

[JF Mezei]

Jeremy Begg wrote:

> That question came up at last year's Bootcamp (2010).  It turned out to be a 
> chicken-and-egg thing: OpenVMS isn't supported on Superdome because 
> customers hadn't asked for it, and customers hadn't asked for it because it 
> wasn't supported! 


But I am curious at a more technical level if the current crop of blade
based superdomes with Quickpath shared memory between blades is
architecturally equivalent to the wildfire/galaxy class alphas which had
shared memory and separate CPU "blocks" (forget what terminology was used).

And if equivalent, how difficult it would be to adapt that code to work
on superdome.

OR: could VMS just boot in its current IA64 version  on a single blade
of a superdome with no shared memory features enabled between instances ?