New Software Release Elevates Performance and Open Environment of Tandem's Himalaya Servers; Portable, open applications benefit from industry-leading parallel processing performance and availability; Up to 50 percent faster execution speed from new optimizing compilers.CUPERTINO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 12, 1996--Tandem Computers Incorporated today announced that it is now shipping the D40 release of its software for Tandem's Himalaya range of open, parallel processing servers. This release provides improved application performance, and supports superior open system services for companies looking to take advantage of Tandem's parallel processing performance and reliability in an open computing environment. The D40 software release introduces new optimizing compilers that provide up to 50 percent faster execution speed in generated code as well as greater performance in many communications and transaction processing subsystems. In addition, D40 supports Tandem's new Open System Services (OSS Oss (ôs), city (1994 pop. 62,141), North Brabant prov., S Netherlands; chartered 1399. It is a significant industrial center. Manufactures include meat products, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electrical equipment, and metalware. ) Release 2.0, which extends Tandem's high performance and inherent reliability to portable, open systems applications. D40 also introduces new application program interfaces (APIs) that are optimized for Himalaya servers and allow a greater range of open applications to benefit from the high performance of native RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. applications. "D40 continues to deliver on the promise of Tandem's open systems strategy," said Jeff Tonkel, vice president of Product Management and Product Marketing for Tandem. "With this release, we are now providing the industry's most reliable, highest-performance, open computing platform for business-critical applications. "In addition," said Tonkel, "D40's performance enhancements continue our trend of heightening our customers' return-on-investment. Users of Himalaya servers who install D40 will experience improvements in performance and price/performance, while gaining a smooth migration path to future systems." The D40 release provides Tandem developers with a head start in developing applications that will run on Tandem's future ServerNet technology--based Himalaya servers. In addition, the new release delivers the new versions of such standard open middleware as Tandem's NonStop TUXEDO(R) transaction processing software (an implementation of Novell's popular open TUXEDO software) and DCE (1) (Distributed Computing Environment) Software from The Open Group that allows applications to be built across heterogeneous platforms in a network. DCE includes security, directory naming, time synchronization, file sharing, RPCs and multithreading services. , as well as the latest release of Tandem's NonStop SQL/MP database management system (a parallel implementation of the industry-standard structured query language See SQL. Structured Query Language - SQL ). D40 benefits D40 is application binary compatible with earlier software; through reduced CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. utilization and increased throughput, it provides customers with a transparent move to higher performance. The addition of optimized native compilers for C and C++ provides a speed improvement of as much as 50 percent in the execution of generated code, while the new optimized compiler for pTAL provides a measured 36 percent speedup. Using these optimized compilers improves the performance of a number of communications subsystems. For example, LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. access methods have been accelerated up to five times, averaging around 100 percent, with the maximum speedups seen in TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. , IPX/SPX See IPX. , and Expand IP. The speed of Tandem's Transaction Control Process executing Screen COBOL COBOL: see programming language. COBOL in full Common Business-Oriented Language. High-level computer programming language, one of the first widely used languages and for many years the most popular language in the business community. is improved by approximately 13 percent. In addition, the D40 release reduces utilization of Himalaya processors. This means that more processing headroom is available for customer applications, which in turn results in improved price/performance. Open systems benefits Tandem's OSS Release 2.0, delivered with D40, provides further performance enhancements, making the Himalaya range of servers superior for high-performance portable, open applications. OSS Release 2.0 supports additional X/Open(R) XPG See X/Open Portability Guide. XPG - X/open Portability Guide 4 specifications, including message queues. Release 2.0 also supports symbolic links in the OSS file system, performance enhancements in the name server, and native RISC OSS applications. Founded in 1974, Tandem Computers Incorporated (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :TDM (Time Division Multiplexing) A technology that transmits multiple signals simultaneously over a single transmission path. Each lower-speed signal is time sliced into one high-speed transmission. ) designs and delivers technology solutions that companies rely on to compete in a business world that runs 24 hours a day. Tandem's revolutionary ServerNet architecture provides virtually unlimited bandwidth for media-rich, data-driven commercial applications. A $2.3 billion company headquartered in Cupertino, California, Tandem has offices, strategic partners, and providers in more than 50 countries around the world. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: Tandem, Expand, Himalaya, NonStop, ServerNet, and the Tandem logo are trademarks of Tandem Computers Incorporated. TUXEDO is a registered trademark of Novell, Inc. X/Open is a registered trademark of X/Open Company Ltd. All other brand and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. CONTACT: Tandem Computers Inc. Junne Moy, 408/285-6142 World Wide Web Home Page Address: http://www.tandem.com |
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