[Info-vax] OpenVMS servers and clusters as a cloud service

[IanD]

I think VMS clusters have been bypassed now

Instead of building robust clusters with shared architecture, the IT world built a multi threaded application layer instead

Hadoop mitigates the need for robust clusters. Just fire up a stack of cheap Linux servers, deploy your workload across it, add however much redundancy you want to handle for failures among the way and your done

VMS clusters are nice but who cares if you serve your disk across 6 nodes simultaneously when your workload is fixed to a particular node anyhow. I'd that node goes down, your screwed, you've lost all that compute time!

The world's moved beyond robust hardware, what people want is robust applications and non stop workload processing

VMware captured the virilization market because it allowed people to mitigates harder failure

The world is crying out for nonstop applications. Migrating whole machines while it runs on VMware is one thing, having a workload that's not stop that can be migrated to other machines and/or split and combined while it runs I think will have business bearing down your door with money in hand

What good is it if I run a batch job for 36 hours on VMS if the node crashes and I have to start again. I've wasted 36 hours!

Find a solution to this problem and I think you find a pot of gold

Virtual processes / virtual workloads surely must be the next evolution on from clusters?