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Stromasys Announces SMP VAX Emulators

 

Geneva, Switzerland - Stromasys today added three new high performance products to the family of its VAX emulators: CHARON-VAX/6610 Plus for Windows, CHARON-VAX/6620 Plus for Windows and CHARON-VAX/6630 Plus for Windows. The CHARON-VAX family of products are software products running on modern Windows or Alpha systems and emulating the legendary VAX computers of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC, now HP). The virtual VAX created by CHARON-VAX permits the installation of any VAX operating system, like VAX/VMS, and the execution of the binary user application without any modification or recompilation. This allows the user to replace his old hardware immediately by modern hardware, significantly reducing maintenance cost, and preserving current investments in applications and staff. In addition, CHARON-VAX enables the user to extend his application on the modern platform while increasing the application performance at the same time

The CHARON-VAX/66x0 products announced today emulate the VAX 6000 CPU and the Symmetrical Multiprocessing (SMP) feature of the VAX computers. The current top of the family product “CHARON-VAX/6630 Plus for Windows” emulates a VAX 6000-630 system with three CPUs and - depending on the host system’s configuration - can provide the performance of a VAX 7000-760 system or more (*). The virtual VAXes created using CHARON-VAX/66x0 can build clusters like any real VAX, including shared disk clustering and NI clustering. They can emulate memory sizes up to 2 GB.

Stromasys specializes in preserving its clients’ software investments across hardware generations by migrating and extending software applications to new platforms, and by its emulator products. It maintains Representation Offices or Value Added Resellers in Australia, Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, Caribbean, France, Germany, India, Italy, Republic of Korea, Latin America, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom and United States.

(*) The measured performance of “CHARON-VAX/6630 for Windows” on an HP DL585 server running Windows 2003 Server Standard Edition is 258 VUPs. The measured performance may vary slightly depending on the VUP-meter version used.

For more information and enrolment, please contact:

Stromasys SA
Switzerland
Phone: +41 22 794 1070
Email: info@stromasys.com
www.stromasys.com