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

[seasoned_geek]

On Thursday, March 26, 2015 at 2:50:50 PM UTC-5, Steven Schweda wrote:

>    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.

I offered to give that person a free copy of my VMS application developer book, pointed them to death row, even offered to somehow get my DS-10 "visible" on the internet and provide him an account.

It has been my experience that OpenSource projects tend to get developed on platforms which don't really matter (i.e. x86) so they take an insane amount of shortcuts.

There would only be a tiny subset of projects one could run even if BOINC was available for OpenVMS today. The majority of the projects have realized the x86 is a worthless piece of trash and are now going CUDA. Last time I checked AMD didn't make NVidia cards for Alphas or provide custom OpenVMS video drivers which would make the CUDA usable.