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If you want to know what's happening in the HP OpenVMS world, this is the portal for you. The father of clustering and the most secure and stable operating system on the market. VMS is without a doubt "The Gold Standard" for computing. French: fr.OpenVMS.org German: de.OpenVMS.org Italian: it.OpenVMS.org dba.OpenVMS.org is a sub-site of OpenVMS.org. Links, information, forums and archives related to databases running on OpenVMS VAX, Alpha and Itanium platforms. Databases include: Oracle DB Server, Oracle Rdb, Mimer SQL, MySQL, etc. dcl.OpenVMS.org is a sub-site of OpenVMS.org. Links, information and archives of DCL procedures for OpenVMS. DCL stands for Digital Command Language and is used to interface with OpenVMS, similar to Perl or shell scripting.

Home of the Linux Cluster RFQ Form, One Form, 30+ Vendors. The fastest moving portal about Linux high performance computing, this portal keeps you informed about Linux clustering, grid and technical computing and also provides links and documentation. Windows High Performance Computing. WinHPC.org is a website for System Administrators, developers, and enterprise managers, offering recent industry news, events, mailing lists and links, etc. related to high performance technical computing and clustering with Windows. The site that started it all for SpyderByte. Tru64 is the UNIX administrators' UNIX. Combined with the Alpha processor there was simply nothing that came close to its performance for years in the UNIX world.

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Golden Eggs are HP Visual Diagrams and Configuration Guides. Matti Patari has been drawing Golden Eggs since the "good'ole" DEC days. This site contains an archive of Golden Eggs from the past as well as the newest offerings from HP. Golden Eggs are in the following catagories: Integrity (Itanium2), AlphaServers, Proliant (Opteron, Xeon), Cluster Platforms, Storage and other misc. diagrams. Nathan Brookwood works with clients who value his unique blend of marketing and technology skills in the semiconductor industry. Although best known for his knowledge of the semiconductor market, he also works in closely allied system markets where improved semiconductor technology plays a key role.

The website of the best-informed and most accurate analyst about all things HP, the late Terry C. Shannon (alias Charlie Matco). Terry passed away in May of 2005. His website has an archive of his newsletter, Shannon Knows HPC, (formerly Shannon Knows Compaq (formerly Shannon Knows DEC)). Terry's newsletter took no prisoners and kept everyone informed about everything related to DEC/Digital, then Compaq, then HP.

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