Re: HP Webcast this morning on Next-Generation Intel Itanium 2 processors

From: Rob Young (young_r_at_encompasserve.org)
Date: 07/03/03

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    In article <lvCcnfzUXKQmM56iXTWJjg@metrocast.net>, "Bill Todd" <billtodd@metrocast.net> writes:
    >
    > "Bradford J. Hamilton" <brad@.gateway.2wire.net> wrote in message
    > news:i7KMa.22062$926.2060@sccrnsc03...
    >
    > ...
    >
    >> Will OpenVMS be able to "play" in this space, as well? After all, the
    > concept
    >> of hard partitioning (Galaxy) came from digital/COMPAQ.
    >
    > My impression is that the concept (and implementation) of hard partitioning
    > long predates any DECpaq implementation: it has been a feature of IBM
    > mainframes for quite a while, and I think moved into some other
    > non-mainframe systems before it came to DECpaq.
    >
    > Galaxy's significant contribution was IIRC softer partitioning, including
    > the ability to migrate individual processors dynamically from one partition
    > to another in tens of microseconds, thus opening the door to *extremely*
    > fine-grained dynamic load-balancing. So one good question would be whether
    > the Itanic MP hardware will continue to support this feature.
    >

            As Clair Grant says as a mantra: "It is in the console."
            One hopes they can tweek the console to their heart's content.

            And yes, hard partitions , LPARs and most everything else
            predated Galaxy. It isn't about hard partitions. Remember,
            it was/is Galaxy Software Architecture:

    http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/10724_na/10724_na.HTML
            
            Reading the patent applications shows they
            were very aware of things that predated them and why they
            didn't want to do a hypervisor (LPAR) and other neat details.

                                    Rob
     

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