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Most likely VMS

• zokier 6y ago
  I'd say HP-UX is at least as likely.
  • OldHand2018 6y ago
    They’ll be running OpenVMS. Funny - HPE sold that last batch of hardware, but they refused to sell software to go along with it - you have to go over to VSI to get that. It’s just an Ingres database and batch processing data into and out of it. Can you believe Ingres is still around?!? The replacement is a DataBricks/Spark system, but it’s years behind schedule - that’s why they had to buy new servers before production ended. It makes me sad that to match the performance of a 2nd-gen dual core Itanium (the entry-level processor back then - 10 years ago), we need a 10-node cluster and all the guys are hand tuning their partition parameters just to get to that performance level.
    • icedchai 6y ago
      I still have nostalgia for OpenVMS. One of the first multi-user systems I worked on was a VAX! I bought an AlphaStation off of ebay a few years back and boot up VMS now and then.
    • wheybags 6y ago
      Do you actually though? Or is the replacement just badly engineered? Lacking context, but that sounds unlikely to me, unless you were doing something that was extremely highly suited to itanium.
      • OldHand2018 6y ago
        Oh don’t get me wrong - the “architect” on that project is in over his head. The thing is, starting a DataBricks cluster can take 2-3 minutes. If you can’t keep it running, you have to bear that cost every time you want to use it. You know, like when you are batch processing... But when you’ve got an on-premise server with a nice fat fiber channel connection to an nvme Pure Storage SAN and a processor that is really good at I/O, it’s going to be pretty fast.