EXPERIENCE PORTING TRIUMF'S 500 MEV CYCLOTRON CENTRAL CONTROL SYSTEM SOFTWARE TO INTEL'S 64-BIT ITANIUM RUNNING OPENVMS
K.S. Lee, Eric Klassen, M.M. Mouat, J.J. Pon, P.J. Yogendran · 2005
The Central Control System (CCS) of TRIUMF's 500 MeV cyclotron runs on clustered Alphaservers using Hewlett Packard's (HP) OpenVMS. Recently HP announced their intention to standardize their new servers on Intel's 64-bit Itani um processor (I64). To test OpenVMS on Itanium at TRIUMF, an I64 based server was purchased and configured in an existing OpenVMS cluster. This new server was setup with a f ull development environment. Hardware issues for connecting to the cluster, to fibre channel disks, and to proprietary hardware interfaces were resolved and then software applications of the CCS were ported to the new hardware platform. In addition to porting the existing softw are, support was added for symmetric multiprocessing (SMP). The issues of hardware and software configuration, software porting, and performance are discussed, and the less ons learned are described.