Boeing Purchases Encore Real-Time Cluster Systems.FORT LAUDERDALE Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 1997-- ...Encore Continues its Success of Adding Real-Time Capabilities to Alpha-based Systems... Encore Computer Encore Computer was an early pioneer in the parallel computing market based in Marlborough, Massachusetts. They offered a number of designs starting in 1985, they were never as well known as the other pioneers of this field, namely Pyramid, Alliant and Sequent. Corp. Thursday announced that The Boeing Co., headquartered in Seattle, has purchased a high performance Real-Time cluster system. This high end system contains a cluster of five alpha based processors combined with VME (Virtual Machine Environment) An operating system from Fujitsu Services (formerly ICL) that runs on its Series 39 mainframes. Introduced in 1975, VME is a comprehensive product that provides a variety of utilities for datacenter operations. and Real-Time I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output . This Encore Real-Time computer solution supports the design, development, testing and simulation modeling of various software modules for the Boeing Airborne Warning and Control System The Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) is an aircraft system designed to carry out surveillance, and C2BM (command and control, battle management) functions. (AWACS AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) Mobile, long-range radar surveillance-and-control centre for air defense. Used by the U.S. Air Force since 1977, AWACS is mounted in a specially modified Boeing 707 aircraft, with its main radar antenna affixed to a rotating dome. ) aircraft. The system will be housed in the AWACS Test Laboratory and has been configured to support large data rate transfer requirements, high fidelity two and three dimensional graphics and high computer requirements across the five processor design. UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). (r) real-time capability is made available through the use of Encore's hardware and software value-add enhancements. True real-time performance is supported using Encore's real-time software, the Real-Time Option Module (RTOM RTOM Real Time Offer Management (SAP) RTOM Real-Time Object Manager ) and REFLECTIVE MEMORY(r) System (RMS). These hardware and software value adds enable UNIX to host a real-time environment that can respond to external interrupts encounters, eliminate UNIX overhead and guarantee a deterministic operating scenario. The Encore RMS enables in real-time, data to be shared in the software simulation across each of the five processors. The Boeing test laboratory is a Boeing capital resource. Its mission is to serve as the high-technology/high-performance development tool for the development and testing of AWACS software and hardware systems. Encore Computer Corp., a worldwide company headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, is the world's leading innovator in scalable real-time data storage, data retrieval, and data sharing technologies for mixed platform processing environments. Encore continues its 36-year tradition of market leadership in providing real-time deterministic systems for time-critical applications. For more information on Encore, access the World Wide Web at http://www.encore.com . -0- REFLECTIVE MEMORY is a registered trademark of Encore Computer Corp. UNIX is a registered trademark in the United States and other countries licensed exclusively through X/Open Co. Ltd. Alpha-AXP is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corp. CONTACT: Encore Computer Corp., Fort Lauderdale Charles S. Anderson, 954/797-5605 |
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