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From: ken@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (Ken Birman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.isis
Subject: Re: V1.2 pre-release announcement
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Date: 11 May 89 13:24:30 GMT
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In article <2602@helios.ee.lbl.gov> guy@bevsun.bev.lbl.gov (Aran Guy) asks:
>
> In <27301@cornell.UUCP>  [Cornell describes some ISIS uses, including:]
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>   o In a particle physics experiment...
> ...
> If anyone can e-mail me any details of the above described
>particle physics experiment, I'd appreciate it....
>

You got us here.  I believe we noted that we were "talking to" this
group.  They eventually decided that they would have to run under VMS.
At this stage there is no VMS port for ISIS, and my understanding is 
that they went for a much less general solution oriented around a 
VAX cluster system without dynamic load sharing.

(We would be happy to talk to your group about using ISIS for something
along these lines, on the other hand!  I think it would be a fairly
straightforward problem, and the benefits could be substantial in terms
of flexibility, modularity, etc.  (Plus, I wouldn't have to edit the
ISIS blurb to delete this particular example :-)

Ken Birman