Re: [MLUG] AIX slowly going away...

["Christian M. Cepel" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

The nightmares with showme, silver, black, gold, etc here on campus have 
put a very bad taste in my mouth.  When asked, the excuse was that AIX 
is the most secure.  The answer to that was perhaps, but not so much 
more secure that it warrants the nightmare when other nearly as secure 
and just better *nixes are available.  Also lets not forget that we were 
indentured slaves to IBM at the time... Anyone remember the ATM fiasco? 
 Entire labs being dead for days weeks at a time over and over, 
Inability to access showme, silver, gold, etc.  Made all the old profs 
that we were beating off of Mizzou1 with a club think that they were 
right to stick with Mizzou1.... of course they didn't realize that we 
were the last BITmail holdouts on the planet and Chicago, our BIT hub 
was begging us to move on so they could retire the system all together.

Shawn Parker wrote:
> semco in columbia runs (ran?) aix. i worked there years ago. they run
> lotus domino on top of aix on rs/6000 servers. maybe my hatred of
> lotus domino clouded my vision, but i never saw anything special about
> aix.
>
> :)
>
>
>
> On 3/7/06, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> > This message just popped up when I loaded a MATLAB module on one of our
> > supercomputers:
> >
> > Mathworks, Inc. has decided to drop support for
> > the AIX platform from Matlab. The final release
> > of matlab for AIX is still installed on the SP,
> > but it is unsupported and will eventually be removed.
> > Please run Matlab on a supported Linux, Solaris,
> > or Windows platform. Questions? email EMAIL:PROTECTED
> >
> > I should add that the machine I was using is a 400+ CPU IBM SP
> > supercomputer running AIX.  It was pretty amazing when it was purchased 6
> > years ago.  Now it seems a bit slow though it has loads of memory and disk
> > space.  It is soon to be replaced by a new IBM cluster that will run ...
> > you guessed it ... Linux!
> >
> > Congratulations, Linux!
> >
> > Mike
> >
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> shawn
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