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Sperry supercomputer
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Ioneywell’s entry into the lffice automation market may Lave been delayed, but the ompany is now ready to ‘beat he drum’. Bob Mack, director If small computer products ;roup explains the strategy. Both large and small organizaions are now seeking to give heir employees workstations vhich can exchange informaion with one another and with entral filing facilities on a nini or mainframe. It is pre,isely in this area of flexible :ommunications that our prolucts really score’. The main extensions to the officeautomation range are the lffice Management System OMS) of minis and supermnis and the Office Worktation (OWS) micros. Both re supplied with office autonation software. The range consists of five nodels based on the comIany’s DPS 6 minicomputers. The OMS 90 consists of three nodels. The top of the range an support 34 workstations mnd 14 printers and four stortge discs. The OMS 40 offers a :hoice of two models supportng eight workstations, four etter quality printers/draft ,rinters and two disc systems vith 80 Mbyte storage. The ;COS 6 MOD 400 operating rystem is common throughout he range.
Sperrysupercomputer
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A supercomputer system capable of supporting both high speed vector and scalar computation has been announced by Sperry. The Integrated Scientific Processor (ISP) is designed for use in scientific processing including physical systems simulation, structural analysis, reservoir modelling and seismic prczessing. The Sperry ISP is fully integrated into its host environment, the Sperry 1100190 mainframe. The job queue for the ISP is stored in main memory like other 110/90 jobs. It then accesses its job queue and data directly from memory without the need to crosss a channel interface. Peak performance of a single ISP is 133 millions of floating point operations per second :Mflo/s) in single precision (36bit words) and 67 Mflo/s in double precision (72-bit
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words). Two ISPs can be connected to a single 1100190 host system. A basic ISP system includes a 1100190 CPU with an Input/ Output Unit, the Integrated Scientific Processor, and a four Megaword scientific processor storage unit shared by the 1100/90 CPU, the IOU and the ISP. To develop further applications software, the package includes a Fortran 77 compiler with extended vector syntax, an automatic vectorization facility as a user aid which permits Fortran source maintenance in ANSI Fortran syntax, and tools for performance measurement, interactive debugging and simulation software support. Available worldwide, the ISP price list is available on request. (Sperry
As part of Honeywell’s commitment to OSI, document exchange can be with other Honeywell mainframes database or spreadsheets or non Honeywell systems including IBM and ICL, using DSA, SNA or CO3 communications facilities. Prices range from E35000-&120000. The OWS is based on the company’s microSystem executive ~~computer announced last year, and combines Multimate software. Running on the COSiPC operating system it provides 512 kbyte of memory, 10 or 20 Mbyte Winchester disc and 640 kbyte diskette. Honeywell considers it functions as powerfully as the IBM PC/AT. It is claimed to run both CPM and PC/DOS or concurrent operations of both on the same system. It will also run most of the industry standard software including Dbase II and Lotus l-2-3. Prices start at around ES000 per system. According to Honeywell, the main market for the OWs will be the current user base wishing to upgrade present systems but it is hoped that the commitment to OS1 will attract new prospects. (HoneyweEl Info~ation Systems Ltd, Hon~well Home, Great West Road, Brentford, Middlesex, UK. Tel: 01468 9191) 111
Ltd, Information Systems Group, Sperry Centre, Stonebridge Park, London NW10 8LS. UK. Tel: 01-965 0511) q
data processing
Ioneywell’s entry into the lffice automation market may Lave been delayed, but the ompany is now ready to ‘beat he drum’. Bob Mack, director If small computer products ;roup explains the strategy. Both large and small organizaions are now seeking to give heir employees workstations vhich can exchange informaion with one another and with entral filing facilities on a nini or mainframe. It is pre,isely in this area of flexible :ommunications that our prolucts really score’. The main extensions to the officeautomation range are the lffice Management System OMS) of minis and supermnis and the Office Worktation (OWS) micros. Both re supplied with office autonation software. The range consists of five nodels based on the comIany’s DPS 6 minicomputers. The OMS 90 consists of three nodels. The top of the range an support 34 workstations mnd 14 printers and four stortge discs. The OMS 40 offers a :hoice of two models supportng eight workstations, four etter quality printers/draft ,rinters and two disc systems vith 80 Mbyte storage. The ;COS 6 MOD 400 operating rystem is common throughout he range.
Sperrysupercomputer
;
A supercomputer system capable of supporting both high speed vector and scalar computation has been announced by Sperry. The Integrated Scientific Processor (ISP) is designed for use in scientific processing including physical systems simulation, structural analysis, reservoir modelling and seismic prczessing. The Sperry ISP is fully integrated into its host environment, the Sperry 1100190 mainframe. The job queue for the ISP is stored in main memory like other 110/90 jobs. It then accesses its job queue and data directly from memory without the need to crosss a channel interface. Peak performance of a single ISP is 133 millions of floating point operations per second :Mflo/s) in single precision (36bit words) and 67 Mflo/s in double precision (72-bit
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words). Two ISPs can be connected to a single 1100190 host system. A basic ISP system includes a 1100190 CPU with an Input/ Output Unit, the Integrated Scientific Processor, and a four Megaword scientific processor storage unit shared by the 1100/90 CPU, the IOU and the ISP. To develop further applications software, the package includes a Fortran 77 compiler with extended vector syntax, an automatic vectorization facility as a user aid which permits Fortran source maintenance in ANSI Fortran syntax, and tools for performance measurement, interactive debugging and simulation software support. Available worldwide, the ISP price list is available on request. (Sperry
As part of Honeywell’s commitment to OSI, document exchange can be with other Honeywell mainframes database or spreadsheets or non Honeywell systems including IBM and ICL, using DSA, SNA or CO3 communications facilities. Prices range from E35000-&120000. The OWS is based on the company’s microSystem executive ~~computer announced last year, and combines Multimate software. Running on the COSiPC operating system it provides 512 kbyte of memory, 10 or 20 Mbyte Winchester disc and 640 kbyte diskette. Honeywell considers it functions as powerfully as the IBM PC/AT. It is claimed to run both CPM and PC/DOS or concurrent operations of both on the same system. It will also run most of the industry standard software including Dbase II and Lotus l-2-3. Prices start at around ES000 per system. According to Honeywell, the main market for the OWs will be the current user base wishing to upgrade present systems but it is hoped that the commitment to OS1 will attract new prospects. (HoneyweEl Info~ation Systems Ltd, Hon~well Home, Great West Road, Brentford, Middlesex, UK. Tel: 01468 9191) 111
Ltd, Information Systems Group, Sperry Centre, Stonebridge Park, London NW10 8LS. UK. Tel: 01-965 0511) q
data processing