[Info-vax] Message from HP.

["Gérard Calliet (pia-sofer)"]

Le 09/12/2013 18:20, John Reagan a écrit :
> On Monday, December 9, 2013 11:59:00 AM UTC-5, Gérard Calliet (pia-sofer) wrote:
>> Le 09/12/2013 17:19, John Reagan a �crit :
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>>> Well, the ServerNet switch is proprietary [think: Star Coupler].
>>
>> It is just what I said : there will not be ServerNet on NSK port on x86
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> ServerNet has nothing to do with the "nonstop" aspect of NSK no more that CI adapters have anything to do with OpenVMS Clustering other than providing a high speed data path with some redundancy.
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> NSK on x86 will use a different (and off-the-shelf) interconnect with better performance.
>
I just reported what I heard in France in a meeting of NSK 
professionals. They were a little bit sceptic about hardware 
standardisation for NSK. They said "if we go more and more to 
standardisation, what would we say about our value add ?".
(I swear there are not trolls).