High-performance Linux cooperation by API, OCI and SCA

 Concord 08 May 00 High-performance Linux provider Alpha Processor (API) announced separate collaborations with Object Computing, Inc. (OCI) and Scientific Computing Associates (SCA) that deliver a new level of bandwidth and reliability to hardware and software developers. This gives developers a set of solutions that help them maximize performance on Alpha Linux.

SCA, pioneers of the commercial use of parallel and distributed computing, is using technology based on API's Ultimate Performance Series motherboards to help customers create more cost effective Alpha Linux clusters with supercomputer-like capabilities. SCA's distributed parallel applications through Linda, a coordination language developed to overcome the problems of hardware, programming and code portability in clusters, now offers programmers the benefit of Alpha's power and speed.

Jerry Lipchus, sales manager at SCA, feels the significance of this collaboration comes with the ability to provide customers real-world solutions at a lower cost. "Our customers are demanding the increased bandwidth and memory only Alpha Linux offers. Working with API, we are addressing this demand and giving them the flexibility needed to create powerful, cost-effective computer clusters," he said.

Using technology based on API's dual-processor UP2000 motherboard, OCI, a software engineering company providing innovative CORBA solutions, is allowing middleware developers using OCI's The ACE ORB (TAO) to have increased performance, bandwidth, reliability and scalability for their real-time distributed applications. This increased bandwidth capacity from API, combined with TAO's scalability and reliability, offers developers a powerful package for the middleware environment.

"OCI's partnership with API provides the commercial support and the high performance technology OCI's customers require," said Dr. Ebrahim Moshiri, CEO of OCI. "Developers need the combination of an open source and powerful processing architecture for the demands of time critical applications."

API's Ultimate Performance Series motherboards, which include the UP1000 and UP2000, enable system integrators, OEMS, VARs and resellers to capitalize on Alpha's vastly superior capabilities to build high-performance, scalable systems.

 

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