NQS and fun

[Bruno Pape]

Hello friends, colleges, and co-workers at SGI Mountain View,

It seems some of our customers are having some problems with NQS.  Could someone
who is more familiar with NQS help them out.  I have provided this information to
ISO customer support.  These customers have no manuals as this software is only
being used on a trial basis.

Thanks again,

Bruno Pape

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> In article <1990Oct2.152835 at igc.ethz.ch>, torda at igc.ethz.ch (Andrew Torda) writes:
> > Imagine one has sgi's port of NQS running on an iris and Sterling softwares
> > original NQS running on a sun.
> Applies also for CRAY and CONVEX NQS. 
> > 
> > Has anyone managed to persuade the iris to accept requests from the sun ?
> > NQS on suns, crays and possibly others seems to put great weight on user id's
> > machine id's and the nmapmgr (qmapmgr on cray) program to inform the batch
> > system of this mapping.
> Called qmapmgr on Convex as well. 
> > 
> > Sgi's port does not seem to provide such a mapping. What does this mean ?
> > Thanks for any advice.
> > --
> > Andrew Torda, ETH, Zurich
> 
> Qmapmgr maps the ethernet location of a machine to the nqs socket. 
> The resulting entry is kept in a (binary) database and the entries are 
> numbered as integers, the so-called machine id. In order to make things easier, 
> SGI is using the internet address. I failed so far to hack the connection 
> in between the two because the mid (machine id) cannot be a four byte 
> number. Anyone else in netland having had success so far ? 
> (Or, anyone of SGI ever thought of commenting on the problem of interconnecting
> hardware? :-) Sorry, I appreciate that things are easier if you don't need 
> to get just another database to maintain but in this case it would be nice.)
> 
> - Reinhard 
> 

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