[Info-vax] Itanium Poulson a game changer

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2013-02-23 18:59:13 +0000, johnson.eric at gmail.com said:

> 
>> The Poulson i4-class server support isn't announced and available yet
>> (for OpenVMS), and you're looking for server upgrade futures
>> information beyond that?
> 
> You would know better than I would but I had thought that
> OpenVMS 8.4 "update 800" was supposed to contain support for Poulson and
> I thought that had been released.  No?

If support has been announced, it's been one of the quietest hardware 
product support announcements around.

I'd expect HP would want to sell a few of these new i4-class boxes, too.

I'm going by the (lack of) OpenVMS in the QuickSpecs and related details:

http://h20341.www2.hp.com/integrity/us/en/entry-class/rx2800-i4-overview.html
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/14464_div/14464_div.pdf

The top item at the OpenVMS web site <http://www.hp.com/go/openvms/> is 
support for the i2 server, too.

It's certainly possible support is latent, but I don't have an i4-class 
box handy in the "hardware zoo" to try a bootstrap.

> Kind of sad that the CPU which was released in Novemeber is still not
> available for OpenVMS 90 days later.  But it makes sense.  Who would
> even really need it enough to purchase it in bulk?

There are OpenVMS installations on Poulson around, but I don't know how 
many or how widespread.


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