[Info-vax] VSI Community License Program - x86

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Many modern CPU processors has more then 6 cores.  Does it affect VMS
clusters?  Mine has 12 cores (i7-8700K). 

Tim

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On 4/15/2023 11:54 PM, Volker Halle wrote:
> John H Reinhardt schrieb am Sonntag, 16. April 2023 um 06:33:01 UTC+2:
> 
>> The answer to your question is none since as of the moment, it's not
supported nor able to run on bare metal anything. The only drivers are for
virtualized devices and hosts.
> 
> There is a report over in the VSI Forum of a success story running VSI
OpenVMS x86-64 E9.2-1 on baremetal:
> 
> https://forum.vmssoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=8621
> 
> And that forum is currently very busy with posts relating to OpenVMS
x86-64 ;-)
> 
> Volker.

Thanks Volker! I had missed that.  Looks like it was posted about 15 minutes
before I did here.  Of course, Scot asked for "supported" and we know what
that means. ;) I did a quick Google search and that ASRock motherboard looks
to be about 8 years old and out of stock most places.  Used on Ebay for
prices between $150 and $500.  Could be an interesting experiment.  Have to
watch the # of cores in the CPU you use as the VSI license only allows 6.

But, yes, the VSI Forums have been very busy lately.  Which is good!

John H. Reinhardt
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