[Info-vax] VMS-based distributed computing project?

[Steven Schweda]

> So it is now 2015.  Somebody offered to help back in 2012 and
> nobody took them up on the offer?  I've found that most open
> source projects are welcoming and usually want more targets. 
> We just need to help out with the OpenVMS specifics.  Did
> anybody follow up back in 2012?

   Since 2006 (before I had an IA64 system), did anyone at HP
follow up with an IEEE-FP edition of the C++ run-time stuff
on Alpha?

   If I still had convenient access to patches and their
release notes, then I might try harder to keep my systems
current, and I might know if the potentially available shared
memory and UNIX socket stuff is adequate.

   My IA64 systems are either too loud (fans), or too quiet
(no audio support), or both, so if I can't do development on
Alpha, then it's unlikely to happen.  I'm unlikely to leave
even a quiet IA64 system (zx2000) powered up only for a
purpose like this, so it wouldn't matter much to me without
Alpha support.

   Back in '06, it was pretty tough to get BOINC and friends
built on Tru64.  (I did get a few minor changes pushed back
upstream, however.)  The hurdles on VMS were too high and too
many.  It might be better now, but I have plenty of ways to
spend my time which don't require trying to wrestle software
updates out of HP, so I'm unlikely to try BOINC again anytime
soon, no matter how helpful the BOINC folks might wish to be.