Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 10th Jan 2006 12:33 UTC, submitted by Kenneth Farmer
"According to George Cook of WVNET this cluster has been up for over 10 years. WVNET is the West Virginia Network, a dynamic service organization providing telecommunications and computing services within West Virginia. WVNET was created in 1975 to provide central computing facilities and wide-area network communications linking its 'central site' computing resources in Morgantown with the campus computing systems at most of the colleges and universities throughout the state. The cluster consists of an Alpha 4100 (with four 533Mhz CPUs) running VMS 7.3-2; a VAX 6000-630 running VMS 7.3; and four DEC 3000 workstations running VMS 7.3-2."
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If I'm not mistaken, it was a cluster reaching the reported uptime. A single node openvms has about a much chance of going down as a single node bsd/linux/whatever, even *with* UPS. My original...rant was more about that someone seems to be under the mistaken impression that a single node linux box behind an UPS is somehow a substitute for a cluster with garuanteed availability.
The first link I posted is a pretty good example of how to implement and use openvms clustering. Compared to that, any HA hack implemented in linux pales in comparison. The uptime stuff...bleh, that's just an ego boosting dicklength contest anyway.
And still, openvms custering is still that good
Anyway, regarding the some of other comments:
HA != Computing clusters (the animation shop argument), plus that rendering stuff is a pretty specific sport at which I think RISC CPUs aren't the best choice anyway...not to mention expensive. Oh, and OpenVMS didn't die with Alpha, it runs fine on Itanic^Hum too.
And in agreement to Rev.Tig, indeed, it is sad that throwing more redundancy into the mix is nowadays considered a substitute for proper system design, implementation and administration. I guess it's the throwaway culture we live in which dictates that cluster nodes have an economic lifetime measured in months instead of in decades.