Yes I know it's a strange thought. Someone just running something on their own machines with their own software ...
> Within an hour of receiving the kit, SCI had OpenVMS V9.0 running in the Oracle High Performance Cloud inside an Oracle VM VirtualBox environment.
This is confusing. OCI doesn’t have a “High Performance Cloud” product. We do have high performance compute, but that is simply latest and greatest hardware via bare metal instances. High performance compute is a standard and long-time part of our portfolio. Perhaps SCI is referencing one of the legacy Oracle cloud products? (I doubt it, Oracle is sun-setting the previous generation of IaaS and migrating all customers to OCI.)
To GP, I don’t think choosing Oracle Cloud is a strange choice anymore. 5 years ago pre-OCI, certainly. Perhaps even two years ago when OCI was still new. But it has come a really long way. From feature, performance, and cost perspectives, it’s a compelling product.
https://www.oracle.com/cloud/solutions/hpc.html
There’s a set of shell scripts linked in there to demo this all, but it uses some feature sets that I haven’t heard of at all.
Disclosure: I’m also an OCI employee, but this post is my own opinion.
You might be surprised.
If you have VirtualBox installed, try executing the CLI "front-end" without specifying any subcommands or options, e.g.,
$ VBoxManage
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From "Journey to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure with Oracle VM VirtualBox" [0]:
> ... the great feature we've added to Oracle VM VirtualBox 6.0: the capability to export a Virtual Machine and get the same running as an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Emulated Instance.
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[0]: https://blogs.oracle.com/virtualization/journey-to-oracle-cl...