VXM Technologies Inc, Brookline, Massachusetts, claims its latest PowerTools technology can integrate SunSoft Inc’s object-oriented network data sharing software, ToolTalk, with the Parallel Virtual Machine message passing system developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratories. VXM says PowerTools can be used to create networked processing systems – not necessarily parallel in nature – which could be […]
VXM Technologies Inc, Brookline, Massachusetts, claims its latest PowerTools technology can integrate SunSoft Inc’s object-oriented network data sharing software, ToolTalk, with the Parallel Virtual Machine message passing system developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratories. VXM says PowerTools can be used to create networked processing systems – not necessarily parallel in nature – which could be made up of heterogeneous Unix workstations and servers, including those from Digital Equipment Corp, Hewlett-Packard Co, IBM Corp, Silicon Graphics Inc and Sun Microsystems Inc. VXM claims a CPU-intensive subroutine created using PVM and executing on a cluster of mixed network environments could be accessed by applications running on systems running ToolTalk services. ToolTalk, part of SunSoft’s Solaris operating system, is now supported by Silicon Graphics, while versions for DEC, Hewlett-Packard and IBM systems are becoming available. PowerTools will include VXM’s Balans dynamic network load balancing software, which automatically finds and allocates spare CPU cycles on a network, from the second quarter of 1993. A 10-node PowerTools licence costs $2,500 – ToolTalk developers kits for DEC, Hewlett-Packard and IBM Unix systems are $300 – a site licence is $1,500. PowerTools for SunOS 4.1.x is available now. DEC MIPS-Ultrix, Hewlett-Packard HP-UX, IBM AIX and Silicon Graphics Irix versions are due in January, with Solaris 2.X and DEC AXP-OSF/1 implementations set for the second quarter. Windows and Windows NT versions of PowerTools will follow in DDE- and ToolTalk-enabled formats, available in the first and second quarter of next year. VXM says its PAX-1 range of software tools for networked parallel processing based on the Linda distributed processing protocols, developed at Yale University, have been abandoned.
