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From: glover@sequoia.cray.com (Roger Glover)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.super
Subject: Re: NQS info wanted (do we need a FAQ posting?)
Summary: Thanks, but you forgot the rest of the CRAY hardware
Keywords: NQS, CRAY, CRI
Message-ID: <012352.8054@timbuk.cray.com>
Date: 5 Jan 91 07:29:59 GMT
Expires: 1991Feb1
References: <1991Jan4.171447@obelix.anu.edu.au> <1991Jan4.181847.24382@nas.nasa.gov>
Sender: Roger Glover
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In article <1991Jan4.181847.24382@nas.nasa.gov> eugene@wilbur.nas.nasa.gov (Eugene N. Miya) writes:
>[Just kidding about the FAQ; yet again from COSMIC's official page.....]
>[I do not know if international distribution of NQS is permitted.]
>
>M88-10054 Sterling
>NOS- NETWORK OUEUEING SYSTEM

[[sic]]

>
>B. KINGSBURY C-LANGUAGE Approximately 75,000 source
>statements  9 Track 1600 BPI UNIX CPIO Format Magnetic
>Tape
>UNIX OPERATING SYSTEM
>ARC-11750 Price: Program $6,000.00/Documentation $21.00
>
>The Network Queueing System, NQS, provides batch and device
>queueing facilities for various computers comprising a networked
>UNIX environment.
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Thank you for your excellent write-up on NQS.  I have been using and teaching
NQS usage on Cray Research machines for over three years, yet I learned
a great deal about the background and organization of NQS that I had only
seen in fragments before.  However, the following is somewhat incomplete:

>Computer networks which have successfully
>implemented NOS include DEC VAX, Silicon Graphics IRIS, Amdahl
>5840 mainframes and CRAY-2 machines.

NQS can run on any CRI machine running the UNICOS(tm), CRI's UNIX(tm)-based
OS.  This includes (potentially) all of the CRAY X-MP and CRAY Y-MP series,
and many of the remaining CRAY-1 computers, as well as the CRAY-2.  Of
course many Cray-1's and X-MP's in the field (and a handful of Y-MP's) do
not run UNICOS, and hence cannot run NQS.  There are also a handful of
Cray sites that run UNICOS but choose not to run NQS.

CRI also supports a subset of NQS called RQS, whose purpose is to pass
batch jobs from a smaller UNIX box to a CRI machine.  For example, I have
used RQS to submit from a Sun-3/60 to a CRAY.  I am not sure what other
UNIX-based systems RQS will support.


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