[geeks] Clustering VAXen through an asynchronous connection

[William S.]

I have just acquired VMS 5.5-2 on tape which I hope
to load into my MicroVAX II. My MVII is encased within
the BA23 (rackmount) enclosure and will have an RD54
disk (159MB 5.25) and TK50 tape drive.

Although I will leave out DECwindows on the install I am
still concerned about lack of disk space. Since no other
hardware will fit in the enclosure I am considering
setting up a cluster with my VAXstation 3100 and
MicroVAX 3100-30. Since the MVII lacks the DELQA
ethernet card I would like to connect through an
asynchronous line. Will this work? If so,
will the "clustering" overcome the MVII's lack
of disk space and enable paging to the disks
on the other platforms? Will the other CPU's kick in
when the MVII's CPU gets overburdened?

Any comments are appreciated. Also please suggest
any "buzzwords" that I might run through Google
to lead me further into online documentation.
Some terms I have looked into: VMS, DECnet,
RMS, OpenCMU.

Also, here is a cool link I found while "Googling".
It relates to a VAX working in the Antarctic.

http://www.nerc-bas.ac.uk/public/uasd/sesame/data.html

Bill
Amsterdam, NL