[Info-vax] Adding AI functionality to VMS ?

[Bob Gezelter]

On Wednesday, August 9, 2023 at 8:26:01 AM UTC-4, John Reagan wrote:
> On Wednesday, August 9, 2023 at 8:17:51 AM UTC-4, Simon Clubley wrote: 
> > IBM have decided to start adding AI functionality to z/OS itself: 
> > 
> > https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/09/ibm_z_os_upgrade/ 
> > 
> > Could be interesting (and maybe in unexpected ways)... 
> > 
> > Maybe VSI could do the same to VMS. :-) 
> > 
> > Perhaps what VMS really needs is a Genuine People Personality 
> > so that it can execute DCL commands in a cheerful and sunny way 
> > and then return to the command prompt with the satisfaction of 
> > a job well done... :-) 
> > 
> > Simon. 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Simon Clubley, clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP 
> > Walking destinations on a map are further away than they appear.
> Sounds like we need to port Clippy to OpenVMS!

John,

I just ate breakfast. Surely you are jesting. Certainly not Clippy. Horrible in so many ways.

However, porting an LLM, either organically, or through partner(s) would be a way to integrate the technology.

The challenge is how to access GPU processors from an OpenVMS system, particularly a virtualized OpenVMS instance. The best way is physical hardware, I did some work in this genre back in the VAX and PDP-11 days with graphic and signal processor add ons. The virtual machine monitors probably have a way to get to the GPU, but a separate GPU class/port driver would probably be needed. It is an interesting idea, but it needs to be done carefully so that it is not a dead end.

Such access would also be useful for non-AI situations, e.g., simulation and image processing.

- Bob Gezelter, http://www.rlgsc.com