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Back to the comprehensive index of January's new products.
Product:
SuperCOMPstation 20 Model HS152-MP and Model HS151
- hyperSPARC workstations
(SuperCOMPstation 20 Model HS151, $15,615; SuperCOMPstation 20 Model HS152-MP, $21,015)
Company: Tatung Science & Technology Inc.
(Milpitas, CA)
Telephone: (800) 659-5902
Fax: (408) 383-0886
E-mail: mkt@tsti.com
URL: http://www.tatung.com/tsti
Platforms: SPARC
Description:
These two new SPARC workstations utilize the 150-MHz hyperSPARC processor by
Ross Technologies. With 512 kilobytes of cache, the 150-MHz hyperSPARC chip
provides an estimated 30 percent performance improvement over other
SPARCstation 20-class processors. The
SuperCOMPstation 20 Model HS152-MP includes two
processors and delivers 7310 SPECrate_int92 and 8758 SPECrate_fp92,
according to Tatung. The Model HS151 uses a single
processor and delivers 169.4 SPECint92 and 208.2 SPECfp92.
Standard configurations for both models include a 20-inch color
monitor, two MBus slots, four 32/64-bit SBus slots, 32 MB of
RAM, a 1.05-GB hard drive, Turbo GX graphics, internal 16-bit,
CD-quality audio, and support for 24-bit true
color SX graphics. Available upgrades include dual-processing
capabilities (for the 20HS151), up to 512 MB of RAM, up to 4 GB
or more hard disk storage, Turbo GX+2 (2-MB),
Turbo GX+4 (4-MB) and 24-bit SX graphics cards,
and color monitors in a range of sizes.
All new Tatung systems come complete with a one-year warranty
and are available with either Solaris 1.x or 2.x pre-installed.
Product:
Cascade XE
- Disk array simultaneously attached to Sun and IBM mainframe
(from $265,000 for 68GB to $475,000 for 136GB)
Company: Cambex Corp. (Waltham, MA)
Telephone: (617) 890-6000
Platforms: IBM RS/6000 and SP2, Sun SPARC, HP 9000 and Microsoft's Windows NT
Description:
The new Cascade XE (cross-enterprise) system provides high availability and up
to 272 gigabytes of mainframe or open system storage in a single,
small-footprint DASD product. The Cascade XE simultaneously attaches to an IBM
mainframe 3990 disk controller and to open-systems platforms or NT.
Mainframe and open-systems environments operate independently and are isolated
through an electronic "firewall" that ensures data security and integrity.
Unlike other solutions, Cambex says, data paths and cache memories are not shared between the
different host environments, thereby ensuring that data cannot be corrupted by
component failure or operator error.
Product:
NetG-1
- Encryption module
(under $5000)
Company: Digital Secured Networks Technology Inc. (Ronkonkome, NY)
Telephone: (516) 467-0400
Fax: (516) 467-4045
E-mail: sga@phantom.com
Platforms: 19-inch rackmount
Description:
Encryption module allowing transparent security and authentication. With dual-ended installation, NetG-1 creates a secure point-to-point virtual private network over open networks.
Product:
PowerHub 4100 series
- Multiprotocol Fast Ethernet switch
Company: Alantec Corp. (San Jose, CA)
Telephone: (800) 252-6832 or (408) 955-9000
Fax: (408) 955-9500
E-mail: powerhub@alantec.com
URL: http://www.alantec.com
Platforms: IP, IP Multicast, and Novell IPX or AppleTalk protocols
Description:
Provides multiprotocol routing, full-featured bridging and multilayer Virtual LAN (VLAN) support across both Fast Ethernet and Ethernet. Available in six fixed configuration modules, each offering a different number of -TX and -FX combinations, as well as four 10BaseT segments providing added connectivity for 10Mbps Ethernet. Supports full-featured bridging and multiprotocol routing of IP, IP Multicast, and a choice of Novell IPX or AppleTalk protocols. Each model will include 2-MB Flash Memory and a three-RISC CPU Packet Engine and will support up to 4,000 MAC addresses per system.
Product:
ARCserve/Open v. 2.0
- High-speed backup and restoration
Company: Cheyenne Software Inc.
(Roslyn Heights, NY)
Telephone: (516) 484-5110
Fax: (516) 484-2489
E-mail: sales@cheyenne.com
URL: http://www.cheyenne.com
Platforms: Solaris 1, 2, and X86; SCO; HP-UX; AIX; Windows NT; Windows 3.1x; OS/2; Netware; DOS; Macintosh
Description:
Cross-platform backup and recovery management, intelligent data protection, autochanger control, dormancy disk-space management for rarely used files, live database backup capability, parallel streaming, automatic configuration, and file tracking database. ARCserve/Open v. 2.0 offers pre-built agents for each operating system, as well as Oracle databases that allow simplified installation and security adherence.
Product:
Black Widow
- Connects CORBA objects to the WWW
($995)
Company: PostModern Computing
(Mountain View, CA)
Telephone: (415) 967-6169
Fax: (415) 967-6212
E-mail: info@pomoco.com
URL: http://www.pomoco.com
Platforms: Solaris, Unix, Windows 95, Windows NT.
Description:
Fault-tolerant object builder that can link CORBA objects to WWW applications and Java applets with automatic client-side and server-side Java or C++ code generation. Also supports object and application wrappers to connect legacy applications. Allows HTTP bypass in favor of CORBA protocol. Object replication allows load balancing and sharing.
Product:
CADIS Krakatoa
- Java-based WWW publishing/interactive search
Company: CADIS Inc. (Boulder, CO)
Telephone: (303) 440-4363
Fax: (303) 440-5309
E-mail: info@cadis.com
URL: http://www.cadis.com
Platforms: Java
Description:
A publishing, interactive search and retrieval technology for the World
Wide Web. Written in Java, CADIS Krakatoa is designed to allow
companies to publish product information over the Web and provide
interactive, intuitive access to that data based on product function
and attributes. National Semiconductor provides interactive access to
over 30,000 NSC products using this technology.
Product:
CIMS
- Integrated enterprise chargeback system
Company: Platinum Technology Inc.
(Oakbrook Terrace, IL)
Telephone: (800) 442-6861 (708) 620-5000
E-mail: info@platinum.com
URL: http://www.platinum.com
Platforms: MVS, VM/VSE, Unix, Netware, Windows
Description:
A solution designed to minimize IT costs by providing
critical chargeback services that track information resources used
organization-wide. The CIMS applications -- including Job Accounting,
Chargeback, Cost Analysis, Resource Utilization Reporting, Capacity
Planning and Resource Monitoring -- promise to provide effective, reliable cost
recovery for heterogeneous, distributed computing environments.
Product:
EiffelMath
- Object-oriented programming of numerically intensive computations
Company: Interactive Software Engineering (Santa Barbara, CA)
Telephone: (805) 685-1006
Fax: (805) 685-6869
E-mail: info@eiffel.com
URL: http://www.eiffel.com
Platforms: Solaris 1 and 2, HP 9000, IBM RS6000, DEC Alpha OSF/1, Data General Aviion, Silicon Graphics, Linux, UnixWare and SCO
Description:
Facilitates the programming of numerically-intensive computations in such areas as probability, statistics, numerical integration, linear and non-linear equations, ordinary differential equations, fitting and interpolation, orthogonal factorizations, linear least squares, optimization, special functions, Fast Fourier Transforms and time series analysis. Uses the numerical library from the Numerical Algorithms Group.
Product:
Excalibur EFS WebFile
- Document image management system
($4,950 plus standard EFS pricing for concurrent users)
Company: Excalibur Technologies Corp.
(San Diego, CA)
Telephone: (800) 788-7758, (619) 438-7900, or +44-1344-893-444 (UK)
Fax: (619) 625-7900
E-mail: info@excalib.com
URL: http://www.xrs.com
Platforms: Unix, VMS and Windows/NT platforms
Description:
Integrates Excalibur's searching capabilities and intuitive
interface with advanced Web server technology.Users with a
Web browser on any desktop platform can access EFS filerooms across the
Internet.
WebFile supports more than 100 document input types, automatically generating
HTML pages. WebFile supports a wide range of TIFF and DDIF image viewers.
Product:
Illustra Server 3.2
- Object-oriented SQL database
($1,250 per concurrent user)
Company: Illustra Information Technologies Inc.
(Oakland, CA)
Telephone: (510) 652-8200
Fax: (510) 869-6388
E-mail: info@illustra.com
URL: http://www.illustra.com
Platforms: Solaris, SGI/Tandem IRIX, and Windows NT
Description:
SQL-command access to rich-data-type object-oriented database with unlimited data type capacity using installable modules. Supports inheritance, acts as a single-object repository, and has full extensibility, including support for access methods as well as data types.
Product:
Web Element
- WWW development tool
Company: Neuron Data Inc.
(Mountain View, CA)
Telephone: (800) 876-4900, (415) 528-3450
Fax: (415) 943-2752
E-mail: info@neurondata.com
URL: http://www.NEURONDATA.COM/
Platforms: Windows, Windows 95, Windows NT, Macintosh, IBM OS/2 and Unix
Description:
A comprehensive development tool for building and integrating
interactive WWW-based software components into business-critical
applications. Provides both an instantly portable, custom Web browser
and development capabilities for the growing number of Internet and
Intranet developers. Web Element has two major sets of functionality
designed to let developers embed Web browsers directly into
business-critical applications. Developers can also customize Web
browsers with Web Element Pro, which provides more flexibility by
adding a Web Control and a C/C++ API. Web Element is designed to let businesses
access all the resources of the WWW with a custom browser embedded in
their applications.
The Web Element enables developers to integrate Web components into
their distributed applications by providing the ability to build and
integrate ObjectScript Applets -- mini programs
written using Neuron Data's Elements and ObjectScript Language, and
downloaded to the client with an HTML document.
Through the ObjectScript Language, the Web Element supports object
interoperability on Windows platforms using OLE. Future releases will support
interoperability through CORBA standards. In addition, Neuron Data is announcing
support for emerging standards for Internet languages, and plans to support
Java, JavaScript and VisualBasic Script in 1996.
Product:
WebC
- Web development environment
($499)
Company: Maximum Information Inc.
(San Francisco, CA)
Telephone: (415) 981-5800
E-mail: info@maxinfo.com
URL: http://www.maxinfo.com
Platforms: popular C++ compilers, Web servers, and Web browsers
Description:
With more than 30 Web browsers on the market, each with varying capabilities and
inconsistencies in functionality, it is the responsibility of the Web
server to generate dynamic information and leverage browser capabilities.
WebC promises to solve this problem by allowing Web servers to implement
application functionality that is deployed using the capabilities of the browser
accessing it.
Developers can integrate C and C++ code directly into
existing and new HTML pages to transform static Web sites into the next
generation of interactive Web-based applications, says Maximum. This highly intuitive
programming paradigm lets developers rapidly bring existing C- and C++-based
functionality to the Web, and provides easy connectivity to corporate databases.
The WebC Integrated Development Environment and Compiler work in conjunction
with the programmer's C++ compiler of choice to generate Interactive Pages.
These pages are deployed on a Web server and managed by the WebC Application
Manager. The Application Manager allows developers to write multiple
applications and support multiple domains on the same Web server, and can be
freely distributed. Other features:
Product:
Managing the New Enterprise
- The Proof, Not the Hype
Product:
Threads Primer
- A Guide to Multithreaded Programming
Company: SunSoft Press
(Mountain View, CA)
E-mail: sunsoftpress@Sun.com
URL: http://www.sun.com/smi/ssoftpress
By Bil Lewis and Daniel J. Berg
300 pages; ISBN 0-13-443698-9
Description:
Written for developers and technical managers, this book provides a solid,
basic understanding of threads -- what they are, how they work, and why they
are useful. It covers the design and implementation of multithreaded
programs as well as the business and technical benefits of writing threaded
applications.
The Threads Primer discusses four different threading libraries: the POSIX,
Solaris, OS/2, and Windows NT libraries. The Solaris and POSIX APIs are
discussed in greatest depth, including implementation details and examples.
Topics covered include:
Product:
Verilog HDL
- A Guide to Digital Design and Synthesis
Company: SunSoft Press
(Mountain View, CA)
E-mail: sunsoftpress@Sun.com
URL: http://www.sun.com/smi/ssoftpress
By Samir Palnitkar
300 pages; includes CD-ROM; hardcover
ISBN 0-13-451675-3
Description:
Written for both experienced and new users, this book offers a broad
coverage of Verilog HDL. The book stresses the practical design perspective
of Verilog rather than emphasizing the language aspects. The information
presented is fully compliant with the upcoming IEEE 1364 Verilog HDL
standard.
Among its features, the book
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