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- From: brydon@asl.slb.com (Harvey Brydon (918)250-4312)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
- Subject: Re: Plans for mixed Alpha/VAX cluster with common system disk?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.125756.7901@slcs.slb.com>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 12:57:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov13.100832.3777@dxcern.cern.ch>, julian@vscn08.cern.ch
- (Julian James Bunn) writes:
- >What worries me more about a mixed architecture VAX/Alpha VMS Cluster is
- >how the poor innocent users are going to sort out the confusion between
- >VAX and Alpha executables. I assume DEC will provide solutions for system
- >logical name tables etc etc for MAVCs, but I bet they wont for the default
- >login directories. The particular problem I see is if the user logs in to
- >the Alpha node in the Cluster one day, re-compiles and links all his source
- >files, then logs in to the VAX node in the Cluster the next day (why should
- >he care what architecture he happens to get?) and wonders why he gets
- >
- >Image file VXCRNA::DISK$C:[JULIAN]COUNTER.EXE;20
- >Image is not an OpenVMS Alpha image
- >
- >Perhaps one could define a LINK symbol in sylogin that, for the Alpha
- >node, directs the .EXE file into a subdirectory [.ALPHA_EXE] ? But this is
- >messy, and probably not what the user wants. Defining different directory
- >trees depending on the node type is no good either, as it defeats one
- >advantage of a cluster, which is to share the data. Unless ... there was some
- >way of linking the source files together, and keeping the excutables and object
- >files separate.
- >
- >Has anybody got any bright ideas ?
-
- It's probably too late by now, but since the two executable types are
- incompatible, it would have made sense to me if the Alpha executables were
- something else besides *.EXE
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