[Info-vax] OS implementation languages

[Dan Cross]

In article <ucm01o$2ehk3$2 at dont-email.me>,
Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>On 8/29/2023 7:30 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> My expectation would be that:
>...
>> * the CPU's running VMS today are so fast and the network cards
>>  Â  supported by VMS so slow that OS overhead is not a huge problem
>> 
>> But I could be wrong.
>
>I took a quick look at:
>   https://www.islandco.com/hp-parts/hp-integrity-network-options
>
>It seems like the most common netword card speed is 1 Gbit, but
>that 10 Gbit cards are available.
>
>I don't see 400 Gbps being possible. Not enough slots in an Itanium
>to be able to put enough 10 Gbit cards in to achieve that.

No one doing 400 Gbps is using 40 x 10Gbps cards to do so,
unless it's some kind of a "hold my beer" dare.

They're using something like Mellanox ConnectX-6 adapters in
whatever configuration, or Chelsio terminator parts, or similar.
I'm sure VMS does not support these, but could be made to.

Itanium has nothing to do with it.

	- Dan C.