Re: Cluster Nomenclature

On Mar 5, 5:59 pm, moro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael Moroney)
wrote:
jayne.aub...@xxxxxxxxx writes:
At the last place I did VMS admin I inherited a pair of 7620's names
Kirk and Spock. I managed to get a follow on machine named Scotty but
after that management insisted on "functional" names.  Memory fails to
recal what they were.

When I was at Digital, there were lots of clusters or groups of systems
run by groups that had themes for their names, esp. in the early days
before managers started insisting on "functional" names as you put it.

My group had a VAX named JON:: and originally a PDP-11 named GARFLD.
Being in the infamous "Mill", a group had 'bug' systems such as SPIDER::
and BEE::, and, of course, MILRAT::.  I knew of a KIRK:: and SPOCK:: at
minimum in a cluster, I'm pretty sure there were other Trekkie names in
that cluster.  DECnet area routers were DALEK:: and TARDIS::, with a
DRWHO:: in the same lab.  The VMS STAR cluster had celestial objects.
More obscure was VMS's EVMS cluster for developing the Alpha side of
things.  Some members were Alpha instructions (ZAPNOT, LOADQ, ORNOT)
others were African national parks (ETOSHA, TSAVO, ARUSHA, CHOBE).

Dave Cutler's group in Bellevue, WA (DECwest) had the DECWET cluster:
MOLD, MILDEW, RUST.

At one time the VMS team (it wasn't open then... ;) ) at the CSC in
Colorado used a beer theme: COORS, KILIAN, THREE2. Either the RSX or
RSTS team had a PDP-11 named LABATT.
.

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