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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2018-01-14, IanD <iloveopenvms at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Try writing a distributed data analyser to crunch through 5 PB of data and
> collate it all and to cope with machine outages/failures of an unknown type
> along the way on VMS and see how long it takes
>
> Try encoding 100,000 videos to transform then from one format to another and
> keep track of the conversations in real time and again handle any failure
> along the way and see how much wrapper code it will require on the VMS
> platform. Google does this type of task quite a lot. So does Netflix etc.
> Training providers also do mass video conversation
>

When I had a look at this recently, this stuff looked really good for
the distributed processing of the type you mention above but it was
very unclear to me just how good it is when it comes to the 100%
data integrity mission critical transaction processing that z/OS
and VMS do across multiple sites.

I wouldn't want to use VMS to do the kinds of task you mention above.
OTOH, there's nothing in what I have seen so far that would make me
comfortable using this stuff for the wide-area disaster tolerant 100%
data integrity that VMS clusters provide.

Simon.

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