From iav@hep.ucl.ac.uk Mon Jan 19 19:58:08 1998 Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 15:59:40 +0000 (GMT) From: "Ian A. Vine" To: Mark Edward Hayes Subject: RE: QT0's and a few other ancient questions (fwd) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | Ian A. Vine | | University College London - HEP Software Group | | Telephone +44 171 419 3450 Fax +44 171 380 7145 | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 09:26:56 +0100 From: Stig Topp-Jorgensen To: "'iav@hep.ucl.ac.uk'" Subject: RE: QT0's and a few other ancient questions Hi Ian -----Original Message----- From: Ian McArthur Sent: 06 October 1997 18:05 To: Stig Topp-Jorgensen Subject: FW: QT0's and a few other ancient questions Hi Stig, would you mind answering this lot ? Cheers, Ian -----Original Message----- From: Ian A. Vine (phone UK 0171-419-3450) [SMTP:iav@hep.ucl.ac.uk] Sent: 06 October 1997 18:00 To: i.mcarthur@physics.ox.ac.uk Subject: QT0's and a few other ancient questions Hi Ian, I am trying to get together some info on Zeus transputer issues, mainly concerned with keeping our test gear running. We are currently using a qt0 in an ancient uVAX II. Do you know of any institutes that upgraded to the scsi based link board that might have qt0's available. RAL has got 2 QT0's which are not used any longer. They are now using a 3000/76 workstation with a HXIS interface. And that will probably be replaced fairly soon with something a bit more up to date. We have considered moving over to using the scsi based transputer link board. What can you tell me about it? Specifically, price, manufacturer etc. What host system does the interface require? Our VMS based hosts are likely to be Vax 3100, Vax 4000 or Alpha 3000-400. We use a device called a TR801 from Caplin Cybernetics. I guess the price is around 2.5k but I am no sure. What is happening with the harness software? Is it likely to move to unix? If so what will happen to roctest? Our main concern in this area is what happens to test software in DESY. At DESY we are currently using VaxStation 4000/60. At some point we will move to Alphas running OpenVMS. This should require very few changes. My recommandation would be that we should buy two TR801s (one for you and one for RAL). For the next year or so, you can probably get by with a VaxStation of some sort (a 4000/60 would be ideal). We could clone the system from RAL (which in turn is a reduced version of zukvs2/3). Within a year of two we should upgrade all the systems: Zukvs1 (Oxford), zukvs2&3 (DESY), zukvs5(DESY) and zukvs6? (UCL) to Alphas. Cheers Stig