I’m not disagreeing with you! I don’t really understand why people wanted it — it wasn’t what the machine was designed for.
I mean, I do understand (but disagree with) the specific use case at NASA where I encountered it: the CFD would run all night (or longer) and when done the files went to some Irises for visualization, which also took forever. So running the same source code (basically rsync iirc) sounds easier in theory. But at what cost? I think it would have been better to just write the transfer code to run under Cray OS.
And indeed, once unicos was on the machine people did want to run it interactively.
I mean, I do understand (but disagree with) the specific use case at NASA where I encountered it: the CFD would run all night (or longer) and when done the files went to some Irises for visualization, which also took forever. So running the same source code (basically rsync iirc) sounds easier in theory. But at what cost? I think it would have been better to just write the transfer code to run under Cray OS.
And indeed, once unicos was on the machine people did want to run it interactively.