Re: [CI] Who are you?

[Bruce W. <br...@ka...>]

Who are we?
   Going back to the 80's, we developed a technology
called the Locus Distributed Systems, which was a full
SSI cluster technology that was both BSD and SysV.  We
were contracted by IBM to build TCF (Transparent Computing
Facility) that was a product on the PS/2 and 370
around 1989.  Starting in about 1991, we began
rewriting all the SSI code, first on OSF/1-AD as
part of the Intel Paragon offering, and then on
SysV4.  We  (Locus computing), then contracted
with Tandem in about 1992 to build SSI HA
clusters for the S4000 (hardware fault tolerance
Unix offering Tandem had primarily for Telcos).  The
technology and a group of the engineers/architects
was aquired by Tandem in 1996 so we could bring out
a version on Intel, using Unixware as the host.
That product is called NonStop Clusters for Unixware.
We started porting the code from Unixware to Linux
about a year ago.  CI is the first 2 pieces that
we believe can be the framework for not only SSI
clusters but also HPTC clusters and other forms of
Linux clusters.

I very much appreciate your interest and would love
to have your help.  We are not doing a "product", 
however.  This is a technolgy offering that we hope
will be embrassed by the open source community and
eventually be part of distributions and products.

bruce

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> 	Which is a question I was asked this week.
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> 	I am a HPTC consultant involved in both high performance Linux
> clusters as well as Tru64 high availability clusters. In short, I'd like to
> talk to you about what you are doing and how we can help your group to get
> your product to our customers.
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> 	Call me at (972) 679-7892 please...
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> 	Henry Schwindt
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