Join SCI at the IT Symposium 2024 by Connect Deutschland April 8^th -10^th, 2024 in Berlin Germany. SCI will be presenting as part of the OpenVMS SIG Germany track.

Don’t miss the opportunity to attend for the latest news regarding OpenVMS while networking with likeminded professionals.

Topic areas include:

• VSI Business update
• VSI OpenVMS Technical Update
• VSI OpenVMS x86 Lessons Learned and Experiences
• And much more….

Norm Lastovica from SCI will be presenting the following 2 sessions at this event. 

We look forward to seeing you there!

SCI Experience since the dawn of OpenVMS on x86
As the first site outside of VSI to run OpenVMS on the X86 platform, SCI has been in the X86 game since the beginning. SCI has ported our internal applications as well as several customer applications to run on the X86 OpenVMS environment. SCI builds code with multiple languages both native and using the cross-build environment. SCI’s extensive monitoring components run on X86 and have been updated where applicable.

This session will discuss our experiences from compiling and linking applications before OpenVMS was available through running production compilers on OpenVMS V9.2-2 on our X86 based systems. Various bugs, porting experiences, and the overall close relationship with VSI during these early years will be covered.

IT’s Slow! – Now What?
Quite often the problem statement originates as “It is slow”.  And just as often, there is a lot more to the story. This session covers the identification and analysis steps used to pinpoint application and system performance “hot spots” frequently contributing to “slow”.  Topic areas include CPU bound, IO bound and contention bound environments including RMS files, alignment faults, code compilation options, caches, buffering, etc. No application developer or system manager should miss this session.