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Stromasys Announces
SMP VAX Emulators on Alpha

 

Geneva, Switzerland - Stromasys today added four new high performance products to the family of its VAX emulators running on the Alpha systems: CHARON-VAX/6610 Plus for OpenVMS/Alpha, CHARON-VAX/6620 Plus for OpenVMS/Alpha, CHARON-VAX/6630 Plus for OpenVMS/Alpha, and CHARON-VAX/6660 Plus for OpenVMS/Alpha. 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/6660 Plus for OpenVMS/Alpha" emulates a VAX 6000-660 system with six CPUs and - depending on the host system's configuration - can provide the performance of a VAX6000 system, model 640 or more. The virtual VAXes created using CHARON-VAX/66x0 can build clusters like any real VAX, including shared disk clustering, NI clustering and mixed clusters. 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 countries, France, Germany, India, Italy, Republic of South Korea, Latin America, Libya, Mexico, Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom and United States.

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