From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2017 06:59:20 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] UNIX on S/370 In-Reply-To: References: <201711200350.vAK3omwQ013495@freefriends.org> <05be01d36266$4b32e810$e198b830$@ronnatalie.com> <93a49f88-c9b2-d395-ba82-f7a3577bffea@tnetconsulting.net> <05ec01d3627a$6960cc80$3c226580$@ronnatalie.com> <374F4C47-30B2-4E3E-A493-62C259D25CF0@ccc.com> <060301d362c0$493fd7c0$dbbf8740$@ronnatalie.com> Message-ID: <20171121145920.GQ9146@mcvoy.com> On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 08:51:30AM -0500, Clem Cole wrote: > FYI: the follow on to it, TNC (Transparent Network Computing); corrected > both of those issues. TNC becme the OS for Intel Paragon which scaled to > 4096 nodes. Locus moved the technology into 18 different components and > made them available separately. They were all eventually made open > source. The TNC file system became DEC's TruCluster FS, a project which I > lead and brought me to DEC. I had also lead a group in Boston that had > put TNC into HP-UX with full process migration before we did the work for > DEC actually, but HP cancelled the project before it ever shipped. Bruce > and the west coast Locus folks put most of TNC into Linux a few years ago > before he retired and as I say, succeeded to release it as open source -- I > can dig up a URL for that project, if folks are interested. I had it > running on a small 8 node cluster about 8-10 years ago; it was very cool; > but was using a older version of the RH and a 2.4 Linux kernel around the > time Linux went to the the 2.6 kernel. I would be very very interested in seeing that.