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From: doelz@urz.unibas.ch
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: NQS question: answer and further questions
Message-ID: <1990Aug22.154058.911@urz.unibas.ch>
Date: 22 Aug 90 14:40:57 GMT
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Organization: University of Basel, Switzerland
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In article <9008220412.aa14401@VGR.BRL.MIL>, 
 XBR2D96D@DDATHD21.BITNET (Knobi der Rechnerschrat) writes:

> 
>   I've heard that NQS is available in 3.3. Is NQS in the standard
>   software, or is it an option?

Our sales rep told me that it is an option. Price SFr. 1390.--

We want to run it in conjunction with a CONVEX CX batch implementation, 
and the prerelease I had did not work properly. I have to 
admit that this was before 3.3, and things changed a lot. 

Could someone of SGI commment on the following: 

Both CRAY and CONVEX NQS implementations communicate using a so-called 
mid (machine id), which is maintained as node name. In contrast to 
this, SGI used the internet number, giving problems on both other 
implementations. Is this still true or did the implementation change ? 
Further, I'd like to know which limits are supported. Because setrlimit is 
now part of the kernel, it should support far more features than the 3.2 
version... 

Regards, 
Reinhard